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A Brahmin praying to the Sun-god. Coloured lithograph, 1851. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
A Brahmin praying to the Sun-god. Coloured lithograph, 1851.
- Sophie Charlotte Belnos
- Date:
- 1851
- Reference:
- 587480i
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Description
A Brahmin performs worship to Surya, who personifies the sun and is regarded as the source of light and warmth. Surya controls the seasons and has the power to grant or withhold the ripening of crops, so is greatly revered throughout India
Publication/Creation
[London] : 1851.
[London] : Day & Son
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 33 x 26 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Pooja of Soorya.
Day & Son.
References note
Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, 477.21
Reference
Wellcome Collection 587480i
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