"Idolatres," by *MALLET*, 1685
Source: ebay, July 2007
*"Idolatres," from another edition of Mallet: a German edition of 1719 (with modern hand-coloring)*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2005
*"Brulement des femmes aux Indes," an unsigned Dutch-school etching, c.1700-25*; *a closeup view*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2006
"Manner in which the Women in India Burn Themselves after the death
of their Husband"
"Manner in which they Bury Themselves alive with the corpse of their
Husband" (1728)
Source: ebay, July 2003
"Picart, Bernard. 'Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, Representees par des Figures dessinees de la main de Bernard Picart: Avec une Explication Historique, & quelques Dissertations curieuses'. Tome Second. Amsterdam: J. F.Bernard, 1728. A large copper engraving from that work. The print is signed and dated in the plate by Picart."
From Edward Cavendish Drake, "A Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels" (J. Cooke, London, 1768)
Source: ebay, Dec. 2005
"A Gentoo Woman burning herself on the Funeral Pile of her Husband," a copper engraving, 1770
Source: ebay, Dec. 2005
*A similar vision of sati from Moore's Voyages and Travels, 1780*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2005
A depiction by William Frederick Martyn, from "The Geographical Magazine" (London: Harrison & Co., 1783)
Source: ebay, June 2005
*A version by William Hurd from 'Geschiedenis van alle wereldgodsdiensten' (Martinus de Bruyn, Amsterdam, 1781)*; also, *an Indian woman is buried alive with the dead body of her husband*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
*"An Hindoo Woman about to be buried alive in the grave of her Husband," from 'Geography on a Popular Plan' by Rev J. Goldsmith, published by Richard Phillips, London, 1811*; also: *"An Hindoo Woman throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her Husband"*;
Source: ebay, Jan. 2008
Source: http://www.antiqueprints.com/proddetail.php?prod=e3097&cat=34
(downloaded Nov. 2004)
A sati as depicted by Giulio Ferrario, c.1816
Source: ebay, Jan. 2002
"Giulio Ferrario. 1816-27. This print is from Giulio Ferrario's work
Le Costume ancien et modern, ou histoire du gouvernment, de la malice,
des arts, sciences, usages, etc. e tous les peuples anciens et modernes,
deduite des monuments. It was published in Milan by the author between
1816 and 1827. This aquatint engraved plate after a design by Solvyns was
drawn by Ferrario, engraved by Lancon, and color printed on fine wove paper
with additional hand-coloring."
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
*Preparation for a Suttee, aquatint by Robert Melville Grindlay, 1816* (BL); *a very large scan of a reprint of this engraving, 1844, uncolored, from my own collection*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2005
*The tomb/shrine of a sati, by Himely and Lauvergne, probably Paris, c.1830* (BL)
With a garbled caption, from "A New and Complete System of Universal Geography," published by Thomas Kelly, London, 1834
Source: ebay, Dec. 2005
Source: ebay, June 2007
"Ceremony of burning the body of a Hindu widow with the body of her late husband*; also: *The favorite Wife of Sevajee, preparing for the Suttee," from an English history book, 1851*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
A steel engraving published by James S. Virtue Co., 1858
Source: ebay, Sept. 2005
Source: ebay, Dec. 2007
"Sri Rani Sati," an oleograph print published by S. S. Brijbasi, Bombay, c.1960's
Source: ebay, Jan. 2006
Another example of bazaar art, from the early or mid 1900's, with two co-wives shown as satis
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
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