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        "tombstone": "Maid bringing a hookah to a lady (recto), from a Kalighat album, c. 1890. Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat. Gum tempera, graphite, ink, and tin on paper; secondary support: 48.6 x 30.1 cm (19 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.); painting only: 45.8 x 27.5 cm (18 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward, 2003.107.a",
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        "title": "Maid bringing a hookah to a lady (recto), from a Kalighat album",
        "creation_date": "c. 1890",
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            "Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat"
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        "technique": "Gum tempera, graphite, ink, and tin on paper",
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        "department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
        "collection": "Indian Art",
        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "Secondary Support: 48.6 x 30.1 cm (19 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.); Painting only: 45.8 x 27.5 cm (18 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.)",
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                "height": 0.458,
                "width": 0.275
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 200105,
                    "title": "Indian Kalighat Paintings",
                    "description": "<i>Indian Kalighat Paintings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-September 18, 2011).",
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                "description": "William E. Ward [1922-2004], Solon, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "date": "?-2003",
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        "description": "Kalighat paintings reflect the time and context in which they were created. Kalighat painters used their medium to offer penetrating and insightful critiques of British-influenced Indians as well as the British themselves through satires and caricatures. Newly rich Bengali native Indian clerks (babus) aspired to dress and behave like their British masters, and Kalighat painters taunted them for this. <br><br>The maid, dressed in green, holds a hookah in her right hand. The lady in red is likely a fashionable high society concubine or prostitute known and depicted at this time as hookah-smoking, makeup-wearing, paan- (betel leaf with areca nut and lime paste) chewing hussies. The wealth created by the East India Company made it possible for Bengali babu dandies to have concubines and pay for prostitutes.",
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        "creditline": "Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward",
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