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Editorial Shiva Carries the Corpse of Sati.
Editorial Wedding dress with puffed sleeves Gown with a trailing skirt and puffed sleeves Dress in silk with a woven pattern of an oval with a circle, high waist and short sleeves, ankle-length skirt and trimmed along the hem and puff sleeves with a ream of sati...
Editorial Quilt with Buildings, Animals, and Coats of Arms. United States, New York, or Great Britain. Date: 1880-1900. Dimensions: 261.3 x 261 cm (102 7/8 x 102 3/4 in.). Appliqu?d and embroidered quilt; dyed and printed cotton, wool and silk plain, twill, sati...
Editorial Cope. Italy or Sicily. Date: 1601-1675. Dimensions: 135.4 x 289.7 cm (53 3/8 x 114 1/8 in.). Silk, satin weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt-metal-strips in crossed back, running, sati...
Editorial Quilt with Buildings, Animals, and Coats of Arms. United States, New York, or Great Britain. Date: 1880-1900. Dimensions: 261.3 x 261 cm (102 7/8 x 102 3/4 in.). Appliqu?d and embroidered quilt; dyed and printed cotton, wool and silk plain, twill, sati...
Editorial Cope. Italy or Sicily. Date: 1601-1675. Dimensions: 135.4 x 289.7 cm (53 3/8 x 114 1/8 in.). Silk, satin weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt-metal-strips in crossed back, running, sati...
Editorial Jiasha (Mantle), Qing dynasty (1644?1911), 1700/50, Han-Chinese, China, Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts, pieced, painted details, edged with silk, warp-float faced 4:1 sati...
Editorial Madan-Bhasma (Shiva Turns to Ashes).
Editorial A Sati or Widow-burning, 1831. A night scene with a full moon and dark trees in the background. The corpse is lying on the lighted funeral pyre with one wife stretched beside, while another is seen approaching. A trumpet is sounding and a number of spe...
Editorial Shiva Bearing Aloft the Body of His Sati, 1800s. India, Calcutta, Kalighat painting, 19th century. Black ink, watercolor, and tin paint, with graphite underdrawing on paper; secondary support: 48 x 29.1 cm (18 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); painting only: 45.6 x ...
Editorial Cope. Italy or Sicily. Date: 1601-1675. Dimensions: 135.4 x 289.7 cm (53 3/8 x 114 1/8 in.). Silk, satin weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt-metal-strips in crossed back, running, sati...
Editorial Quilt with Buildings, Animals, and Coats of Arms. United States, New York, or Great Britain. Date: 1880-1900. Dimensions: 261.3 x 261 cm (102 7/8 x 102 3/4 in.). Appliqu?d and embroidered quilt; dyed and printed cotton, wool and silk plain, twill, sati...
Editorial Cope. Italy or Sicily. Date: 1601-1675. Dimensions: 135.4 x 289.7 cm (53 3/8 x 114 1/8 in.). Silk, satin weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt-metal-strips in crossed back, running, sati...
Editorial Indian sati or suttee ritual. A widow throws herself onto her late husband's funeral pyre. Handcoloured copperplate engraved and drawn by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Ital...
Editorial Shiva Carries the Corpse of Sati.
Editorial A Sati or Widow-burning, 1831. A night scene with a full moon and dark trees in the background. The corpse is lying on the lighted funeral pyre with one wife stretched beside, while another is seen approaching. A trumpet is sounding and a number of spe...
Editorial Indian sati or suttee ritual. A widow throws herself onto her late husband's funeral pyre. Handcoloured copperplate engraved and drawn by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Ital...
Editorial The rite of sati. A woman is seated in the midst of a funeral pyre, her husband's body beside her; two crowds of people attend on either side. In the distant landscape, the funeral procession is seen approaching the site. Lucknow, c.1780. Tinted drawin...
Editorial A Sati or Widow-burning, 1831. A night scene with a full moon and dark trees in the background. The corpse is lying on the lighted funeral pyre with one wife stretched beside, while another is seen approaching. A trumpet is sounding and a number of spe...
Editorial Great St.Leger horse race. The English Spy: an original work, characteristic,. Sherwood, Jones & Co.: London, 1825, 26. Doncaster, Great St.Leger Race, & characters on the Turf'. Image taken from The English Spy: an original work, characteristic, sati...
Editorial Chundoo Lal's sati Ghaut [Hyderabad]. View of riverside ghat, looking across the Musi towards the temple on the far side and the Old Bridge on the left. Photograph. 1908. Source: Photo 1024/(49).
Editorial Madan-Bhasma (Shiva Turns to Ashes).
Editorial Shiva Carries the Corpse of Sati.
Editorial Indian sati or suttee ritual. A widow throws herself onto her late husband's funeral pyre. Handcoloured copperplate engraved and drawn by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Ital...
Editorial THE EXTERIOR OF THE CEMETERY OF MARA SATI, AT AHAR, NEAR OODEYPORE, INDIA.
Editorial Indian men accompanying a widow to a funeral pyre (sati) .