Krishna and Balarama

Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Colour lithograph, lettered, inscribed and numbered 73. Krishna and Balarama are standing near each other on lotus flower pedestals;

Krishna holds his flute, and Balarama a horn. They are surrounded by the cow herders, the gopas, and their herd.

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.