*Woman bathing. A lady of rank is seated on
steps leading to a river; her hair is being dried by an old
lady. A watercolor in the Lucknow style, c.1800* (BL)
Women fetching water, Patna, 1824; from a series of Company
School watercolors
Source: ebay, Mar. 2013
"A Hindu Female," by William
Daniell; Philadelphia, 1836
Source: ebay, Apr. 2009
*"Native
woman, upper India," Illustrated London News, 1858*
Source: ebay, Sept. 2009
*"Female Water Fetcher," an early
postcard photo*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
"The Village Well," from the
Illustrated London News, 1874; *a large
scan of the whole engraving*; and very large scans of *the left half* and *the right half*; this was a
reproduction of a *chromolithograph
by
William
Simpson,
1867* (BL)
Source: ebay, Oct. 2008
"Bathing in the holy river Ganges, Benares," an albumen photo,
c.1870-80
Source: ebay, Oct. 2006
*Two women carrying water in pots, the Ganges
beyond; a watercolor by Bani Lal, c.1880* (BL); *Bani Lal 1880*
Women fetching water, a photo, c. late 1800's
Source: ebay, Jan. 2007
*"Bheel women carrying water,
Kathiawar," an albumen print, c.1880's*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2007
*"Along the Ghats," by Edwin Lord
Weeks, from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1890*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2001
*A woman
equipped for drawing water, in an albumen photo, Portuguese
India (Panjim?), c.1895*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2009
*"Village
well"
somewhere in northern India; a photo from c.1900*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2010
"Saburmatee River, Ahmedabad"-- women washing clothes, late
1800's or early 1900's
Source: ebay, Nov. 2006
*"Water carriers, Madurai," a
gelatin photo, 1904*; *a closer
view*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2008
"Calcutta, Hindu women bathing," a postcard, early 1900's
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
"Family work, Jumna River, Agra," a photo c. early 1900's
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
*"Water carriers, Agra," c.1912*;
also *"Water carriers, Bombay," early
1900's*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2007
In this idealized bazaar art print
(early 1900's) illustrating the Raga Sorath, the idealized male
figure is dressed for westernized office work (with glasses,
shoes, cane); the idealized female figure, dressed entirely
traditionally, is drawing water
Source: ebay, June 2009
"Baby's Bath," a silver print by H.
Ferger, 1929
Source: ebay, Feb. 2009
*"A
Rodiya woman carrying water, Ceylon," a postcard photo from the
early 1930's*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2009
"On the way to the well," a photo
from c.1935
Source: ebay, Dec. 2008
*"Village well, India," a photo from
c. 1950's*
Source: ebay, June 2007
*Five
beaded pot-supports for the head, collected in Rajasthan in the
1950's*
Source: ebay, Oct. 2009
*A design from an embroidered sari*
Source: ebay, May 2014
== Indian
Routes index == Indian Routes
sitemap == Glossary ==
FWP's main page
==
