Wellcome Collection
An Indian woman, about to be burned on her dead husband's funeral pyre. Watercolour drawing by Lady Malet, 1814.
1814
Lettering: Portrait of a suttee, or Brahmin woman, who burnt herself with her husband's body at Poonah; in the yellow robe of marital bliss, in which she dressed for the awful ceremony ; an original sketch by Lady Malet, 1814. Lettering: handwritten on a separate piece of paper, laid down on the same backing sheet.
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