An Indian widow being led to suttee. Coloured etching, 1811.

According to Professor Paul B. Courtright, the print "emphasizes the latent eroticism in sati representation in the early nineteenth century" and resembles a French lithograph in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris" (letter to the Wellcome Institute, 24 March 1993)

The print "depicts Solvyns's central figures, the widow and her two brahmin attendants, in a composition with a scene of the pyre by another artist" according to Hardgrave, loc. cit., referring to a print (not a lithograph) by François Balthazar Solvyns, Calcutta edition, section XII, no. 13, "Shoho Gomon,--Women burning themselves with the Corpse of their Husband"

London : [publisher not identified], Published as the Act directs, Feb. 16 1811.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 23.8 x 19.1 cm

A woman going to burn on the funeral pile of her husband.

Robert L. Hardgrave, 'The representation of sati: four eighteenth century etchings by Baltazard Solvyns', Bengal past and present, 117 (1998): 57-80

Wellcome Collection 10948i