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A Serpent Protects Vasudeva Taking His Infant Son Krishna to Safety

c. 1890
Gum tempera, graphite, ink, and tin on paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

In the lower right, the name Vasudeva is written in the Bengali dialect as “Bashoodeva.”

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