Ganges Collection (page 2)

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

Varanasi (Bathers)
(formerly BENARES) bathers on the banks of the Ganges Date: circa 1910

India - Natives bathing in the Ganges, Benares
Black and white. A bustling area with stairs leading down to the river, on which many people are sitting or standing. In the centre of the image is a large parasol

India - The Ganges above galah
Black and white. The Ganges river winding between mountains.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection. Slide number 227. Date: circa 1890s

Aqueduct on the Ganges Canal, India. Date: circa 1890s

India Kanpur Cawnpore
Kanpur, formerly ka Cawnpore, on the Ganges, will play an important part in the Indian Mutiny in the 1850s. Date: circa 1835

India Yamuna River
The source of the Yamuna (Jumna) river in the Himalayas; it will eventually flow into the Ganges, by way of Delhi and Agra. Date: circa 1835

India Benares
Temple on the banks of the Ganges : due to erosion, two of the towers have collapsed. Date: 1835

India Haridwar
The Ganges at Haridwar, much frequented by Hindu pilgrims. Date: circa 1840

India - Varanasi - Dashasomedh Ghat
India - Benares - Dashashwamedh Ghat - the main ghat in Varanasi on the Ganges River. It is located close to " Vishwanath Temple" Date: circa 1904

Benares, India - Riverside Ghat on the banks of the Holy River Ganges (a series of steps leading down to a body of water, particularly a holy river). Date: circa 1905

Benares on the Ganges, by Hubert Cornish (1757-1832). Painted during a trip made by Lady Teignmouth and her party to the Sunderbans, Bengal

Lady Teignmouth and her party, by Hubert Cornish
Lady Teignmouth and her party on the Great Coolea Mullah in the Sunderbans, by Hubert Cornish (1757-1832). The boat in the foreground contained a kitchen

India, Bihar, Sultanganj: Ganges river, temple. Date: 2011

The River Ganges, India
A beautiful view of the River Ganges, India, with elegant riverside temples and people collecting water, washing and Date: circa 1920

Sailor of HMS Ganges with monkey mascot, WW1
A sailor in the uniform of HMS Ganges during the First World War, with a monkey mascot. The Ganges was a Royal Navy training ship, established in 1865 and remaining in service until 1976

Boys in training, physical drill, Shotley Barracks, WW1
Boys in training, doing physical drill in a field before breakfast at Shotley Barracks during the First World War. They are naval cadets attached to HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training ship

Boys in training on battery work, Shotley Barracks, WW1
Boys in training on six inch battery work at Shotley Barracks during the First World War. They are naval cadets attached to HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training ship. Date: 1914-1918

Boys in training, oarsmanship, Shotley Barracks, WW1
Boys in training, receiving their first lesson in oarsmanship at Shotley Barracks during the First World War. They are naval cadets attached to HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training ship. Date: 1914-1918

The Bridge Builders
The title page of Rudyard Kiplings short story The Bridge Builders, as it first appeared in the Illustrated London News Christmas issue, 1893

Washing in the Ganges - Benares, India
Washing in the sacred River Ganges, which runs through the Indian city of Benares

India - Benares - Banks of the Ganges River
Benares, India - situated on left bank of the Ganga (Ganges) River. Regarded as holy by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, and is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world

Indian Holy Man at Varanasi - River Ganges
Indian Holy Man on the banks of the River Ganges at Varanasi, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Varanasi - River Ganges
The banks of the River Ganges at Varanasi, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: circa 1940s

Varanasi, River Ganges, India
View of the River Ganges at Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Old man at Varanasi, River Ganges, India
An old man poses for his photograph by the River Ganges at Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Man at Varanasi, River Ganges, India
A man sits cross-legged near the banks of the River Ganges at Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Benares - Banks of the Ganges, India
Bathing on the banks of the River Ganges at Benares. This card also shows the Raja Jai Singh Observatory. The massive structure was one of a number of astronomical observatories built by Maharaja

India Ganges
Boats on the Ganges

Ganges Bore
native boats caught in the bore in the estuary of the Ganges, Bangladesh

Hooghly Bore
A native boat tosses in the bore of the Hooghly, the most important channel of the Ganges river in its estuary in West Bengal

Birth of Ganges
Ganga (the river Ganges), daughter of the moutain god Himalaya flows to earth from heaven through Shivas hair

India / Cawnpore 1857
Cawnpore, on the Ganges

Heroes Rise from Ganges
The heroes slain in battle rise again from the river GANGES, proof if proof were needed of the magical power of the life-giving river, personified as goddess Ganga

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...)

Drugs / Opium Factory - 6
OPIUM FACTORY AT PATNA, INDIA for the Chinese trade A fleet of vessels carries the opium down the Ganges to Calcutta, whence it will be transported to China

Map of India Etc / Mallet
Crude map of northern India, previous to any extensive colonisation, including parts of Pakistan & Bangladesh & the sources of two great rivers the Ganges & Indus

Axis or Ganges Stag
As its name implies, this deer is a resident of India

Ganges Near Hardwar
The Ganges near Hardwar, where it leaves the mountains and enters the plains

Ganges at Kahalgaon
The Ganges at Kahalgaon (Colgong)

Indian Monsters
Monstrous creatures reported by travellers in India, from beyond the Ganges River - some with dogs heads, some with one eye, some with heads below their shoulders &c

Source of the River Ganges, India
View of the source of the River Ganges, India. The source stream of the Ganges is the Bhagirathi River in Gangotri, Uttarakhand

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