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)
c. 1890
Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy
Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy (Indian, active late 1800s)
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
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), c. 1890. Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy (Indian, active late 1800s). Woodcut with black ink and handcolored with yellow, green and red paint on paper; secondary support: 49.8 x 31.4 cm (19 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward 2003.111
- Maker/Artist
- Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- Woodcut with black ink and handcolored with yellow, green and red paint on paper
- Dimensions
- Secondary Support: 49.8 x 31.4 cm (19 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 2003.111
- Credit Line
- Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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