2-981-839 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Illuminations at Benares in honour of the Prince of Wales, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. The future King Edward VII in India. Entertainment provided in Benares '...when his Royal Highness visited that interesting Hindoo city...The Ghauts along the mighty Ganges, whose sacred stream is nowhere regarded with deeper religious veneration, were lighted up that night with a strange radiance of festival fires; and in the quaint piles of buildings that overlook the river, there was ample material for the artist's study had time permitted him to linger over that remarkable scene'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.