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A crowd preparing for a suttee, or widow-burning: beside the Ganges (?) River. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

Suttee. Engraving by Walker, 1785, after S. Wale.

An Indian woman, about to be burned on her dead husband's funeral pyre. Watercolour drawing by Lady Malet, 1814.

Suttee. Engraving by Lester, 1820.

Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allow its continuation. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1815, after Quiz.

Suttee. Engraving after B. Picart, ca. 1730.

Suttee. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

Ghat on the Ganges (?): a crowd preparing for a suttee, or widow-burning. Coloured aquatint by R.G. Reeve, J. Willis and H. Melville after R.M. Grindlay, ca. 1830 (?).

A burial suttee: a widow has been placed in a grave beside her dead husband. Engraving after B. Picart, 1729.

An Indian widow being led to suttee. Coloured etching, 1811.

Sati (suttee): a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre as a large crowd watches. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

Sati, the blessing and the curse : the burning of wives in India / edited by John Stratton Hawley.

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Suttee. Engraving by Walker, 1785, after S. Wale.

Sati (suttee): a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre as a large crowd watches. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

Suttee. Engraving by Lester, 1820.

A crowd preparing for a suttee, or widow-burning: beside the Ganges (?) River. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

Sati, the blessing and the curse : the burning of wives in India / edited by John Stratton Hawley.