EditorialCountry boats on the wide expanse of the Ganges with a distant view of the Himalayas. Inscribed: 'C D’Oyly. 19th Septr. 1822. Thibet Hills from Patna'. Country boats on the wide expanse of the Ganges with a distant view of the Himalayas. (Hastings Al...
EditorialVarious demons try to prevent Hanumān from taking the mountain peak back to the Himalayas, but he beats them off and some fall to earth. Rāma and his allies look on, and likewise does Rāva?a, who appears at the jharokhā balcony, the sill spread w...
EditorialGuarinsankar, or Mount Everest, in the Himalaya of Nepal. . Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia, undertaken between the years 1854 and 1858, by order of the Court of Directors of the Honourable East India Company, by H., A. and R. de...
EditorialComparison of mountain heights including Dhaulagiri in the Himalayas, Chimborazo, Mont Blanc, Mount Etna, and the mountain towns of Chota (Micuipampa), Quito, and Cinchoma. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch f...
EditorialAgapetes incurvata (Pentapterygium rugosum). Mount Khasya, Himalayas. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1874.
EditorialGlobba radicalis (Mantisia saltatoria), native to the Himalayas, India. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1874.
EditorialDuke and Duchess of Connaught in India, Rohra Valley in Summer. 2. Sopor, Himalayas in the Background. 3. Bazaar at Srinagar. 4. Temple on Takht-i-Suliman. 5. Heads of some Cashmere Game. 6. The Doongha, or Cashmere Boat 7. Departure of the Duke and Du...
EditorialIvory bodhisattva (Buddhist saint) in a wooden shrine, Kashmir, 8th century. Traces of pigment show that it was oiginally brightly painted. Ivory is an organic material, therefore very few early examples survive. however, a few pieces from Kashmir surv...