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Savitri was the daughter of King Aswa-pati and wife of Satyavan. Satyavan was destined to die within a year of their marriage, but when the fatal day came, Savitri pleaded with Yama for her husband's life. So impressed was Yama of Savitri's devotion that he granted her three boons, but Savitri begged and followed Yama until he restored Satyavan to life

1 print : chromolithograph ; border 32.8 x 23.9 cm

Savitri pleading with Yama for her husband's life. Chromolithograph.

The bottle

A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 29.5 x 42 cm

Two women run towards a transit goods van to greet the driver who has avoided AIDS to drive home to be with his wife; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Lithograph, ca. 1990's.

The Indian women represent the man's wives (?)

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 57.2 x 44.7 cm

Three Indian women dressed in saris sit together with the message that men deserve to go abroad to make money but to avoid foreign women to prevent the spread of AIDS in his own home; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by S. Ghosh for Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.

Lavater writes that this portrait assures us of its subject's "internal sentiment"; "there is no reason to be mistrustful of her"

A faithful young woman. Drawing, c. 1793.

Ganesha with two of his wives Siddhi and Buddhi surrounded by six female attendants. Chromolithograph.

2 pages, [iii]-xii, 226 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (wood engraving) ; 18 cm (8vo)

The English wife : a manual of home duties / by the author of 'The English maiden ...' [i.e. Artemas Bowers Muzzey].

On the left the butcher's apprentice (he has a butcher's steel attached to his belt) laughs at the woman's transformation from a shopkeeper to a fashionable lady. The Pantheon, a grand domed building in Oxford Street, London, had opened on 27 January 1772

1 print : mezzotint ; image 33.1 x 25.4 cm

A woman wearing a fine dress with pearls around her neck, a very elaborate hair style and beauty spots, checks her appearance in a mirror before going out to the new fashionable resort of the Pantheon in London. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 1772.

1 drawing : watercolour, with indian ink ; border 23.5 x 17.5 cm

Cotton spinning couple. Watercolour drawing.

1 drawing : gouache, with gold and gum arabic

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Savitri pleading with Yama for her husband's life. Chromolithograph.

A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

Two women run towards a transit goods van to greet the driver who has avoided AIDS to drive home to be with his wife; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Lithograph, ca. 1990's.

A faithful young woman. Drawing, c. 1793.

Ganesha with two of his wives Siddhi and Buddhi surrounded by six female attendants. Chromolithograph.

The English wife : a manual of home duties / by the author of 'The English maiden ...' [i.e. Artemas Bowers Muzzey].

A woman wearing a fine dress with pearls around her neck, a very elaborate hair style and beauty spots, checks her appearance in a mirror before going out to the new fashionable resort of the Pantheon in London. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 1772.

Cotton spinning couple. Watercolour drawing.

Kavady-kerah and wife: holy water carrier. Gouache drawing.

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Savitri pleading with Yama for her husband's life. Chromolithograph.

A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

Two women run towards a transit goods van to greet the driver who has avoided AIDS to drive home to be with his wife; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Lithograph, ca. 1990's.

A faithful young woman. Drawing, c. 1793.

Ganesha with two of his wives Siddhi and Buddhi surrounded by six female attendants. Chromolithograph.

The English wife : a manual of home duties / by the author of 'The English maiden ...' [i.e. Artemas Bowers Muzzey].

A woman wearing a fine dress with pearls around her neck, a very elaborate hair style and beauty spots, checks her appearance in a mirror before going out to the new fashionable resort of the Pantheon in London. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 1772.

Cotton spinning couple. Watercolour drawing.

Kavady-kerah and wife: holy water carrier. Gouache drawing.

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