Barber Cleaning A Womans Ear
by Heritage Images
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Barber Cleaning A Womans Ear
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Heritage Images
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Drawing - Illustration
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Barber Cleaning a Woman?s Ear, 1800s. 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. A chinless barber with cleaning pins tucked in his turban is cleaning the ears of a lady customer. A fashionable woman, she smokes a hookah and exposes one breast to her flirtatious barber. As the Bengali babus (native Indian clerks) spent time with their mistresses and courtesans, neglected wives and concubines were portrayed as relying on the company of their servants. Creator Unknown. (Photo by Heritage Arts/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
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