Jatayu hinders Ravana’s chariot, trying to prevent the abduction of Sita (recto), from a Kalighat album

Diana or Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Jatayu hinders Ravana’s chariot trying to prevent Sita’s abduction (recto), from a Kalighat album

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Jatayu hinders Ravana’s chariot, trying to prevent the abduction of Sita (recto); Dushyanta watching his son Bharat playing with the tiger at the end of the Abhijnanashakuntalam (verso)

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

The third suitor, who is an archer, shoots the wicked fairy who has imprisoned Zuhra. He rides on a magic horse prepared by the second suitor and is led to the spot by the divining prowess of the first, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Garuda Carrying Balarama and Krishna (verso), from a Kalighat album

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Krishna Steals the Clothes of the Cowgirls (Gopis) (recto), from a Kalighat album

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Shiva Bearing Aloft the Body of His Sati

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Krishna Steals the Clothes of the Cowgirls (Gopis) (recto); Das Avataras, Ten Incarnations of Vishnu (verso)

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Change of Residence, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

Paul Gauguin

Krishna Stroking Radha's Feet (verso), from a Kalighat album

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Jatayu hinders Ravana’s chariot trying to prevent Sita’s abduction (recto); Battle Scene at Kurukshetra from the Mahabharata War (verso)

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Unknown Artist