View of a burning ghat showing a cremation in process, Benares (now Varanasi), India

People:

Thomas Rust (photographer)

Title:

View of a burning ghat showing a cremation in process, Benares (now Varanasi), India

Date:

between ca. 1869 and ca. 1874

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.3 x 23.7 cm secondary support: 27.9 x 35.5 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0059

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- There are remnants of white woven tape hinges on the u.l. and u.r. of the verso of the secondary support.

Inscription:

inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, u.r.: "Rare" with a price and / "Thomas A. Rust / Cremation [#6]" [circled] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, u.r.: "226"

Location:

Varanasi; Uttar Pradesh; India;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
people
stairs
walls
buildings
staircase
ghat

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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