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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)
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Credit lineLeaf 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, hand colored with gum tempera; 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
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