Ganges Collection

Indian State Railways poster
Visit India tourism poster from Indian State Railways, promoting the delights and sights of Benares (Varanasi) on the banks of the River Ganges in the state of Uttar Pradesh

En Pleine Folie at the Folies Bergere
Sketches by Erte for Grands Flueves du Monde (the Great Rivers of the World) in En Pleine Folie at the Folies Bergere, Paris, 1923 (showing the Rhine, the Nile, the Ganges and the Amazon)

Poster advertising Garhmukhtesar, India
Poster for the East Indian Railway, advertising trips to Garhmukhtesar

Buddhas Crosses Ganges
SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA, known as the BUDDHA ( Enlightened One ) He crosses the Ganges river standing on a small cloud

Nutwell Court, Exeter, seen from the River Exe, seat of Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller-Eliott-Drake. Georgian neo-classical manor house with portico entrance

River Ganges, Benares, India

Benares / Varanasi India Victorian period

Bathing in the River Ganges, Varanasi, India

River Ganges Varanasi India probably 1920s

Bathing in the River Ganges, India, Victorian period

Cremation on the bnaks of the Ganges - Benares
Benares, India - Cremation area on banks of the Ganges. Bodies wrapped in cloth await the ceremonial burning at the waters edge. circa 1920s

Ghat on Ganges river, Benares, Varanasi, India, c. 1880 s
Ghat on Ganges river, Benares, Varanasi, India, c.1880 s

Benares (Varanasi), across the Ganges, India, c. 1880 s
Benares (Varanasi), from across the Ganges, India, c.1880 s

View along the ghats, Benares (Varanasi), India, c. 1880 s
View along the ghats, Benares (Varanasi), India, c.1880s The ghats or steps along the Ganges allow devout Hindus to reach the holy water of the river

Bathing in the River Ganges, India. Date: circa 1900s

c. 1880s India - burning ghat Ganges at Benares Varanasi
c.1880s India - burning ghat for cremation dead bodies on the Ganges at Benares Varanasi

Ceremonial river bathing, Ganges? India
19th century vintage photograph: Ceremonial river bathing, probably River Ganges India

c. 1880s India - Benares Varanasi - ghats on river Ganges
c.1880s India - Benares Varanasi - ghats on the river Ganges

Javan rusa or Sunda sambar deer, Rusa timorensis. Vulnerable. The Rusa Deer or Samboo Stag in the Gardens of the Zoological Society. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by W

The Ghat, Haridwar, India, Hindus bathing in the Ganges
The Ghat, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India, with Hindus bathing in the River Ganges. 19th century

The Great Temple, Hardwar or Haridwar, India
The Great Temple, Hardwar or Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India - long procession Hindu pilgrims during annual festival, arriving to wash in the River Ganges. 19th century

Gharial or gavial, Gavialis gangeticus. Critically
Gharial or gavial, Gavialis gangeticus (Gangetic crocodile, Lacerta gangetica). Critically endangered. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Heath after an illustration by George Shaw from his

Ganges river dolphin, Platanista gangetica gangetica, endangered. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Benares, India, burning Ghat, cremation by the Ganges
Benares, India burning Ghat, cremation by the River Ganges. circa 1910

River Ganges and ghats, Varanasi, Benares, India circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Boats on the River Ganges, India
Indian Hindoo riverboats sail slowly along the Ganges. Date: 1842

Religion - India - Ganga
King Shantanu meets GANGA, the goddess of the Ganges river, and she becomes his first queen provided he never speaks an angry word to her (which of course one day he does...)

CROSSING RIVER ON CLOUD
The Buddha, needing to cross the Ganges, summons a little cloud which dutifully ferries him over

MAPS, ASIA, INDIA 1719
Crude map of northern India, previous to any extensive colonisation, including parts of Pakistan & Bangladesh & the sources of two great rivers the Ganges & Indus

COTTON FLEET, INDIA
Cotton fleet on the Ganges, casting off from Mirzapore in the early morning Date: 1862

Boatman, Ganges, India
An Indian man rows an old wooden boat in the River Ganges along the ghats of Varanasi. Bathers are in the water Date: 1987

Bathing in the Ganges by Fortunino Matania
With our special artist in India: a wonderful sight in the metropolis of Hinduism. Thousands of pilgrims, fakirs and other worshippers bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges, Benares, India

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India - Man Mandir Ghat
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India - regarded as the spiritual capital of India - the Man Mandir Ghat, built by Rajah Man Singh in 1600, showing Jai Singhs stone observatory on the roof Date: circa 1910s

Ganges crocodile, Indian Gharial, Gavialis gangeticus. Critically endangered.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Lady Teignmouths Budgerow, by Hubert Cornish
Lady Teignmouths Budgerow, Sunderbans, Bengal, by Hubert Cornish (1757-1832). The houseboat contained a drawing room, a bedroom and a vestibule; it is flying the East India Company flag

The Soosoo of the Ganges, a river dolphin
Line drawing, plate 28 from the Naturalists Library volume XXV11 by Robert Hamilton, 1836

Young sailor of HMS Ganges, WW1
A young sailor in the uniform of HMS Ganges during the First World War, with a wireless operators badge on his sleeve. The Ganges was a Royal Navy training ship

Royal visit to India: illuminations at Benares 1876
Royal visit to India: illuminations at Benares in honour of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). The Princes boat ride along the River Ganges. Date: 1876

Alamgiri Mosque, Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India
Alamgiri Mosque (right), Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1920

Looking across the river Ganges at Benares, (Varanasi) India, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Washing in the river Ganges, Benares, (Varanasi) India circa irca 1890. Date: circa 1890

The ghats on the Ganges at Benares (Varanasi) India, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Bathing at the River Ganges, 1912
Illustration by Fortunino Matania at Benares, showing thousands of pilgrims, fakirs and other worshippers bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges. Date: January 1912

Fountain of Four Rivers, 1651, by Bernini. The river-god Gan
Italy. Rome. Fountain of Four Rivers, 1651, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Detail of river-god Ganges and Obelisk of Domitian. Navona Square

Bathing in Ganges
Pilgrims bathing in the Ganges Date: 1905

Ganges / Source
Pilgrims at the source of the Ganges, near Gangotri, NE border of Tehri District, Uttar Pradesh : the Himalayas seen beyond Date: circa 1840

Varanasi (Luard)
(formerly BENARES) bathers on the banks of the Ganges Date: circa 1845

India / Hardwar
The Ganges enters the plains near Hardwar, which is an important centre of Hindu pilgrimage Date: circa 1840

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