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

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

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Woman Playing Music (recto); Krishna Stroking Radha's Feet (verso)

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Rama and Sita in the Royal Palace (recto); Radha and Krishna (verso)

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Rama and Sita enthroned (recto); Garuda carrying Balarama and Krishna (verso)

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

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

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Krishna Ferrying Radha Across the Yamuna River (recto); Parivati Placing a Wedding Garland on Shiva (verso)

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

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

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Savitri and the God of Death Yama

anonymous

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Parvati Placing a Wedding Garland on Shiva (recto); Yasoda Churning Butter (verso)

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

‘Paithan’ (Chitrakathi) narrative painting

anonymous

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Rama and Hanuman, Holding an Uprooted Tree, Rescues Sita (recto); Goddesses Lakshmi and Sarasvati (verso)

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Adoration of young Krishna

India, Himachal Pradesh, Mandi