Compare with J. Jain, Kalighat Painting: Images from a Changing World, Los Angeles, 1999, p. 108, fig. 100. and an example in the British Museum dated 1865 (Add.Or.904). For a comparable series of similar date in the Victoria and Albert Museum with the same minute finish, deft precision, and control of subtly rounded forms, see W.G. Archer, Kalighat Painting, 1971, pp. 49-51, cat. no.5.
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