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Saraswati

Indian
about 1890

Medium/Technique Lithograph
Dimensions Length x width: 45.4 x 27.6 cm (17 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mark Baron and Elise Boisanté
Accession Number2011.2010
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

InscriptionsUpper right and left and lower right and left list products such as a hair oil, a Malaria medicine, a tonic for weakness, and a medicine for "putrid blood."

Bottom center:
Established by Kaviraj Sir Binod Lal Sen
ADI AYURVEDH OUSHODHALAY
146 and 36 No. Lower Chitpur Road, Calcutta
Physician - Kaviraj Sri Pulin Krishna Sen Kabibhushan
ProvenanceAbout 1890, Nabokumar Biswas, Calcutta Art Studio, Calcutta; by descent to his great-grandson, Sri Shubjojit Biswas, Calcutta; 2008, sold by Biswas to Mark Baron and Elise Boisante, New York; 2011, gift of Mark Baron and Elise Boisante to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 21, 2011)