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popular print, album
Description
English: Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Colour lithograph, lettered, inscribed and numbered 53. Tara, holding a skull cup, two swords and a lotus, stands on Śiva. Two cremation fires burn in the background. Kali is usually associated with this pose, however the two goddesses are virtually indistinguishable. See 2003,1022,0.27 for a depiction of Kali standing on Śiva from the same series.
Depicted people Representation of: Kali
Date circa 1895
date QS:P571,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 41 centimetres (sheet)
Width: 30.50 centimetres (sheet)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
2003,1022,0.53
Notes

Dallapiccola 2004: During the battle between Durga and Mahisha, the goddess became so incensed that her wrath burst out of her forehead in the form of Kali ('the black'), who symbolises both the creative and destructive powers of time. Her blackness hints at the dissolution of individuality in the timeless darkness which is also filled with the potential for new life. Kali loves battlefields and cremation grounds, where she dances surrounded by jackals and ghouls among the smoking funeral pyres. Once her frenzied dancing threatened the stability of the whole universe, so the gods plead with Shiva to intervene. He succeeded in calming her by throwing himself among the corpses under her feet.

Lithography was gaining momentum as a medium for picture production in the 1870s, and several studios operated in Bengal producing popular prints for the mass market. Hand-written captions in English have been added to the Bengali letter-press of the majority of the prints (some letterpress also in Hindi). The majority of the chromolithographs in this album were produced in Calcutta and reflect Bengal devotional cults; the final four prints were published by the Ravi Varma Press from Lonavla, c. 1910.

See Christopher Pinney, 'Photos of the Gods' London 2004 for a comprehensive account of nineteenth century popular prints in India.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2003-1022-0-53
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