Baby Krishna Asking for Butter from Yashoda, from a Kalighat album
c. 1890
Gum tempera, graphite, ink, and tin on paper
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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of July 2026
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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Kalighat artists made metallic pigment out of tin to look like silver.
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