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TITLE: Twenty four plates illustrative of Hindoo & European Manners in Bengal
SUB TITLE: Drawn on the stone by A. Colin from sketches by Mrs. Belnos
AUTHOR: Mrs. Belnos
PUBLISHER: Smith & Elder Cornhill
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1832
NO.OF PAGES: 24 lithographic plates by A. Colin after Mrs Belnos, explanatory text to plates in English and French.
BINDING: Leather bound with marbled-paper covered boards and marbled end papers
SIZE: 47.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm
LIST OF PLATES:-
1. A Hindoo Returning from Callee-Ghaut
2. A Hindoo Woman Serving her Husband Dinner
3. A Hindoo Woman Exposing the Body of her Infant on the Borders of the Ganges
4. A Dying Hindoo brought to the Ganges
5. Offering to the Ganges
6-7. Feast of the Churruck Poojah
8. Ablutions of a Young Hindoo woman of Rank on the Banks of the Ganges
9. A Hindoo Woman Exposing her Infant Supposed to be Under the Influence of a Malignant Spirit
10. The Village Gooroo Receiving the Homage of Travellers
11. The Hoolly Festival
12. The Village Gossips
13. Silk and Cloth Merchant
14. Interior of a Native Hut
15. Bayees or dancing boys
16. Three Dancing Girls of Hindoostan.
17-18. A Nautch
19. The Corpse of a Native Woman Floating on the Ganges
20. A Bunderwallah
21. Pykars or Pedlars
22. Jogees / Voiragee / Mendiant Musulman / Mussulman Beggar
23. A Civilian Going Out
24. Men of Low Cast Skinning a Dead Bull
'Mrs. Belnos may have been an Indian. In 1851 she is given as Mrs. S.C.Belnos on the title page of The Sundhya, No.477 (JA4341), S.C.may be her maiden initials. Jean-Jacques Belnos, the lithographic printer (?) of the above plates, was probably her husband. He is given in Thieme U. Becker as a lithographer and artist. " Abbey Ravel 458.
A rare and finely executed lithographic album on India including a frontispiece and 24 black and white plates. "Every plate is executed from sketches after nature, which I made chiefly during my pedestrian excursions in the interior of the country, on the banks of the Ganges, where the restraints which confine respectable Europeans to the Palkee are laid aside, and they can enjoy in uninterrupted freedom the contemplation of the various scenes presented by the country, and its inhabitants to their view" (Mrs. Belnos quoted in the foreword)
Reference: Abbey Travel 458; Colas 292; Bobins 223.
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