Bathing Ghats, Benares
Category
Photographs
Date
1910
Materials
Photographic paper
Measurements
77 mm (H)103 mm (W)
Place of origin
Benares
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 888427
Summary
Photograph showing ghats leading down to the River Ganges.
Full description
Photograph showing ghats, or steep flights of steps, leading down from city to the River Ganges, surrounded by people on jetties and passenger boats to the left. c.1910
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953.
Marks and inscriptions
(in pencil on reverse) Bathing Ghats/Benares