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Dushyanta watching his son Bharat playing with the tiger at the end of the Abhijnanashakuntalam (verso), from a Kalighat album
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- Gum tempera, graphite, ink, and tin on paper
- Culture
- Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The women at the right are probably Dushyanta's wife Shakuntala and her mother Menaka.
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