Sujet

A group of men stand around the body of a man laid out on a pyre of logs during a Hindu..., 1896/97 Creator: Unknown.

Légende

A group of men stand around the body of a man laid out on a pyre of logs during a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague, 1896/1897.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A35_009

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NA

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NA

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,4Mo (5,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 31,3cm / 4960 x 3692 (300dpi)

Mots clés

standing road people male group man men health ceremony Asian India Asia historical religious Indian country religion fence guy smoke continent ceremonial death photography ritual Hinduism location disaster century Bombay Mumbai maharashtra plague empire sickness sick catastrophe disease photograph charity roadside concept Hindu photo B&W funeral epidemic Thoroughfare contagion 19th century black & white black and white B W locals diseased Local People 1890s nineteenth century South Asian history historic 1896 Black Death British Empire British Raj Bubonic Plague charitable institution cremation funeral pyre Hindoostan imperialism pyre Raj TGN copyspace street photograph pandemic Unknown The Raj wayside British India Heritage Art 19th-century research centre Wellcome Collection Wellcome Research Institute Wellcome Trust