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Illuminations at Benares in honour of the Prince of Wales...1876. Creator: Unknown.

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Illuminations at Benares in honour of the Prince of Wales, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. The future King Edward VII in India. Entertainment provided in Benares '...when his Royal Highness visited that interesting Hindoo city...The Ghauts along the mighty Ganges, whose sacred stream is nowhere regarded with deeper religious veneration, were lighted up that night with a strange radiance of festival fires; and in the quaint piles of buildings that overlook the river, there was ample material for the artist's study had time permitted him to linger over that remarkable scene'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A81_041

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

48,1Mo (5,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 28,7cm / 4960 x 3390 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel transport transportation river water building buildings India architecture boat boats arts light night entertainment lights dark art British geography color illumination darkness century illuminated Britain illuminate newspapers press print Uttar Pradesh Ganges Varanasi Ganges River illuminations river ganges time of day B&W ghats tourist attraction engraved engraving lit Up Colour Benares 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W white and black ghat nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News royal visit TGN ILN newspaper landscape Unknown Prince of Wales Prince Edward King Edward VII Edward VII Wettin Prince Albert Edward Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David King of Great Britain and Ireland 19th-century HRH The Prince of Wales