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

  • Sophie Charlotte Belnos
Date:
1851
Reference:
587478i
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A Brahmin performing a bathing ritual in the Ganges. Coloured lithograph, 1851. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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

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[London] : 1851.
[London] : Day & Son

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

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Gungashtuk Day & Son.

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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