Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label adhered to the back of the print reads: 'KALI. one of / the maleficent / consorts of SIVA. / Vide, "Gods of India" p.p. 185-189 This particular print is described p.186'. Postscript: 'C&D I.H.N. Evans, 1920'.
Event Date
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Other owners)
Collected by: Evans, I.H.N
Event Date
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Amendments / updates)
Z number allocated on 30 4 1987.
Event Date 30/4/1987
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Display)
Exhibited: On display in the Maudslay Hall, CUMAA, from 1990.
Event Date 1990
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Amendments / updates)
The inscription on the back of one of the prints gives an incorrect identification, " Kamadeva..." . The Hindi inscription on front is "Shri Rama Chaindonja." (Chris Pinney, SOAS, 1993).
Event Date 1993
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (CMS Description)
Twenty-three coloured glossy printed pages of deities from the text by Vide, " Gods of India" . The bottom of each page has a registration number, an inscription in Hindi and " Ravi Varma Press. Karla Lonavla."
Event Date 1/12/1995
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Analysis)
Christopher Pinney. 2004. Photos of the Gods: the printed image and political struggle in India. Reaktion Books, pp.64-66:
“The Ravi Varma Press Kali (illus. 39) - printed at various times as no. 68 and as no. 315 - is a good example of a later image (post 1915) that clearly has no direct connection with Ravi Varma the artist and is, in many ways, utterly opposed not only at a stylistic level, but also at what one might describe as the moral and political level. The image bears all the standard iconographic traits of this popular Bengali goddess and differs from earlier Calcutta Art Studio lithographs perhaps only in its directness and primacy of colour. It is difficult in a print like this to see what might have been the basis for the populace of Bombay’s aesthetic discriminations in favour of / Ravi Varma Press products as against those of earlier studios.”
Event Date 1/2/2004
Author: Mark Elliott

Description (Physical description)
Poster or printed page of the Hindu deity 'Kali', the consort of Shiva. She is depicted with blue skin and her tongue sticking out. She has four arms which hold a bloody sword, a tray and a beheaded head - the body of which is lying to the side of Kali. She has one foot resting on the body of her consort Shiva, who is prostrate on the ground with a cobra wrapped around his arm. This print is one of twenty-three coloured glossy printed pages of deities from the text by Raja Ravi Varma, "Gods of India".
Event Date 10/12/2018
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Oleograph (coloured print) of the Hindu goddess Kali, standing with her left foot on the chest of the god Shiva, who lies on the ground in front of her. One of twenty-three coloured glossy printed pages of deities from the text "Gods of India" by Raja Ravi Varma Press.
Event Date 22/7/2019
Author: Mark Elliott

Loan (Exhibition)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 11/05/2020 to 26/10/2020, The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces
Event Date 11/5/2020
Author: Katrina Dring