Durvasa Angry on Shakuntala

Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Colour lithograph, lettered, inscribed and numbered 20. The sage Durvasa chastises Śakuntalā for being lost in fantasy about her lover. This is an episode from the Mahabharata that was then expanded in a Sanskrit play by Kalidasa.

Printed by: Chore Bagan Art Studio. The Chore Bagan studio produced popular prints for the mass market comparable to those being created at the larger Calcutta Art Studio. Lithography was gaining momentum as a medium for picture production in the 1870s, and the Chore Bagan studio, located in Bhoobun Bannerjee’s Lane, Calcutta, was active in the 1880s and 1890s.