Kalighat Painting

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy (Indian, active late 1800s)

c. 1890

Medium

woodcut

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Secondary Support: 30 x 49.7 cm (11 13/16 x 19 9/16 in.); Painting only: 27.8 x 41.7 cm (10 15/16 x 16 7/16 in.)

Culture

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

• Prints
• 1800s
• India