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Ten manifestations of Durga

Lithograph
c. 1880 (made)
Place of origin

Printing, lithograph, hand tinted, Ten manifestations of Durga, Calcutta, c1880


Object details

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Object type
TitleTen manifestations of Durga (generic title)
Brief description
Printing, lithograph, hand tinted, Ten manifestations of Durga, Calcutta, c1880
Object history
Acquired by the Museum from Miss M. Steele in 1950. This picture from a series which was being part of a collection inherited from her mother, a scholar in Sanskrit at Cambridge in 1894. When delivering the collection, Miss Steele reported that her grandmother had also lived in India for some time and that it was possible that the pictures were originally collected by her grandmother.
Collection
Accession number
IS.633-1950

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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