From Shantiniketan: The system of irrigation in this region. Water runs from the pond into a pit and is lifted from there to a pit on a higher level by means of boatlike containers. If the difference in height is great, the lifting is done several times. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
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Genre: Portrait Photography View of the system of irrigation in the region. Water runs from the pond into a pit and is lifted from there to a pit on a higher level by means of boatlike containers. If the difference in height is great, the lifting is done several times.
'A view of Tank Square from the west'. Coloured aquatint after J. B. Fraser. Plate 8 of Views of Calcutta, published Rodwell & Martin, London, 1824-26. Artist(s): Havell, Robert (1793-1878), after Fraser, James Baillie (1783-1856)
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'A view of Tank Square from the west'. Coloured aquatint after J. B. Fraser. Plate 8 of Views of Calcutta, published Rodwell & Martin, London, 1824-26.. Artist(s): Havell, Robert (1793-1878), after Fraser, James Baillie (1783-1856)