Ganga on a Crocodile, 19th century, 17 5/8 x 11 5/16 in. (44.7 x 28.8 cm), Watercolor on paper, India, 19th century, Ganga, the goddess of the sacred Ganges river, sits on her crocodile vehicle. The upside down elephant on her left and Brahmin priest at her right reflects an iconographic convention from contemporaneous advertisements and product labels.