Set of two prints on Golden Temple

a) After William Carpenter Junior
A Sikh Temple in Umritzir
Circa 1858
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
6 x 9.25 in (15 x 23.2 cm)

a.1) William Carpenter
Sacred Tank and Marble causeway leading to a Sikh temple in Umritzir
Circa 1858
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
5 x 9 in (12.5 x 22.8 cm)

Published in The Illustrated London News, 6 November 1858

b) After William Carpenter Junior
Interior of A Sikh Temple at Umritzir; Reading the Grunt'h
Circa 1858
Later hand-coloured woodcut engraving on paper
10 x 14.5 in (25.5 x 37 cm)

Published in The Illustrated London News, 6 November 1858

Interior of the Golden Temple at Amritsar with men sitting on the ground beneath a fringed canopy, at right the Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, lying open on a cushion, a ceremonial brush laying over the pages, musicians playing at left, beside them a man crouches to catch a bird who pecks at the carpet in the foreground, a mother and children exiting the scene at left, others proceeding behind the line of men around the back of the room; after William Carpenter Junior, page cut from the 'Illustrated London News', 6 November 1858, p.426. 1858 (Source: The British Museum, online)

(Set of two)

These works will be shipped unframed

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