2-981-795 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Prince at the Temple of Srivangam [sic], Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. The future King Edward VII in India. Temple at '...Srirungum...is about five hundred years old. At the entrance to the inner courts the Prince was received by the priests, whom he followed down an arcade formed entirely of strings of oleander flowers of different colours to a pavilion similarly formed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.