Sarasvati, goddess of learning, with her vina and her peacock vehicle

Source: http://www.neonblue.com/tfs/saras.htm
(downloaded Oct 1999)

FROM THE RIG VEDA:

"Your inexhaustible breast, Sarasvati, that flows with the food of life, that you use to nourish all that one could wish for, freely giving treasure and wealth and beautiful gifts -- bring that here for us to suck." --The Rig Veda: An Anthology, trans. Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty (New York: Penguin, 1981), p. 81.

Sarasvati in a  religious poster from the mid-1900's

Source: ebay, Feb. 2004

Another modern Sarasvati (bazaar art, c.1950's)

Source: http://danbhai.com/rci/rcistudyaids.htm
(downloaded Nov. 2004)

She also often appears as an attendant of Shri Lakshmi; bazaar art, c.1970's

Source: ebay, Dec. 2007

Here she appears not only holding leaves of writing as she generally does, but also standing on an open book (modern bazaar art)

Source: ebay, June 2008