A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s1.22

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The sculptures, both decorative and statuary, are well represented in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by a series of 128 casts taken in 1869, under the supervision of the Principal of the Calcutta School of Art at the time. ‘The Orissa carver of those days,’ Dr. Anderson observes, ‘went direct to nature for his designs, and the results of his labours in combining groups of animals with foliage show that he must have been a keen observer. They are extremely pleasing pieces of art, not only on account of the beauty of their execution, but by reason of their truthfulness to nature.'¹