Les bords du Gange près de Calcutta. 1842. [The sick being brought to the banks of the sacred river.]. Artist(s): Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881), after Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
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Lithograph of the sick being brought to the banks of the Ganges near Calcutta by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of 1842 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov and published in Paris in 1848.Hindus regard the River Ganges as amrita, the elixir of life, which brings purit...