Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Ghat on the Ganges (?): a crowd preparing for a suttee, or widow-burning. Coloured aquatint by R.G. Reeve, J. Willis and H. Melville after R.M. Grindlay, ca. 1830 (?).
Ghat on the Ganges (?): a crowd preparing for a suttee, or widow-burning. Coloured aquatint by R.G. Reeve, J. Willis and H. Melville after R.M. Grindlay, ca. 1830 (?).
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Ghat on the Ganges (?): a crowd preparing for a suttee, or widow-burning. Coloured aquatint by R.G. Reeve, J. Willis and H. Melville after R.M. Grindlay, ca. 1830 (?).

Robert Melville. Grindlay · 1830

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Lettering: Preparation for a suttee, or the immolation of a Hindoo widow ; from a drawing by Captn. Grindlay. Etchd. by J. Willis & H. Melville. Engd. by R.G. Reeve.

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