File:India, Calcutta, Kalighat painting, 19th century - Sheetaladevi- The Smallpox Goddess - 2003.157.a - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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anonymous: Sheetaladevi: The Smallpox Goddess (recto), from a Kalighat album  wikidata:Q60479392 reasonator:Q60479392
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Title
Sheetaladevi: The Smallpox Goddess
Part of Leaf from a Kalighat album: Sheetaladevi: The Smallpox Goddess (recto); Durga (verso) Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Sheetala, the smallpox goddess, is simultaneously benevolent and dangerous: she can both protect and infect, bless and curse devotees with smallpox and other diseases. Persons scarred by smallpox are believed to have been graced by her. She is appeased so that she does not infect her worshippers. Her name, Sheetala, “Cool One,” refers to her birth out of a cooled sacrificial fire. The rippled curtains above her are suggestive of theatrical tableau and Sheetalapala (The Drama of Sheetala) that was performed in Bengal. She sits astride her vehicle (vahana), the donkey, regarded as an inauspicious animal.

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Date 1800s
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Medium Black ink, watercolor, and tin paint, with graphite underdrawing on paper
Dimensions Secondary Support: 46.9 x 29.8 cm (18 7/16 x 11 3/4 in.); Painting only: 45.5 x 27.7 cm (17 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Accession number
2003.157.a
Place of creation India, Calcutta, Kalighat painting, 19th century
Credit line Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward
References https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.157.a Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.157.a

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