Sujet

Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river..., [1800-1899?]. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges, [between 1800 and 1899?].

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A35_351

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,9Mo (5,4Mo) / 42,0cm x 32,7cm / 4960 x 3867 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors river water building people male work man men India historical religious religion science guy smoke belief burning geography tradition death custom waterfront photography holy Hinduism century photograph charity rite concept Uttar Pradesh Ganges Varanasi Hindu Ganges River river ganges photo riverbank B&W corpse ghats funeral ethnology Benares 19th century black & white black and white B W 1880s anthropology ghat last rites nineteenth century history historic charitable institution cremation ethnography funeral pyre geographical feature pyre TGN outside building exterior working photograph landscape Unknown Heritage Art 19th-century research centre Wellcome Collection Wellcome Research Institute Wellcome Trust