Festival of the Goddess Durga at Calcutta

1858

Lithograph on paper

Print size: 13.3 x 18.7 in (34 x 47.5 cm)
Sheet size: 17.3 x 24 in (44 x 61 cm)

Lithographed by De Rudder
Published by Smith, Elder and Cornhill, London

Alexis Soltykoff's tinted lithograph depicts Calcutta's vibrant Durga puja. The idol of the goddess is in a corner and the activities being enacted by the natives are drawn in detail. The artist has depicted musicians and their instruments, the onlookers, the lamps hanging from the ceiling with the swinging fan dominating the picture and the presence of European guests, dhakis (traditional drummers), and nautch girls.

This work will be shipped unframed

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