A Brahmin performing a bathing ritual in the Ganges. Coloured lithograph, 1851.

  • Belnos, S. C., Mrs.
Date:
1851
Reference:
587478i
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Description

A Brahmin stands in the holy river Ganges, where he offers prayers and performs rituals. The sacred water is cupped in his hands and poured over his body, symbolically cleansing away all sins

Publication/Creation

[London] : [publisher not identified], 1851 ([London] : Day & Son)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 28 x 32 cm

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Gungashtuk

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 477.3

Reference

Wellcome Collection 587478i

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