Rama and Hanuman, Holding an Uprooted Tree, Rescues Sita (recto), from a Kalighat album

Savitri and the God of Death Yama

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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

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

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

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

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Krishna quells the serpent Kaliya (verso), from a Kalighat album

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Dushyanta watching his son Bharat playing with the tiger at the end of the Abhijnanashakuntalam (verso), from a Kalighat album

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Krishna Ferrying Radha Across the Yamuna River

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

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

God Shiva in His Ferocious Aspect as Mahakala Dancing

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar

Sugriva challenges his brother Vali, King of the Forest Dwellers, to a duel, folio 10 from the Kishkindha Kanda (Book of Kishkindha) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)

Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Nurpur, Court of Dayadhata (reigned 1700–1735)