Author: Jan Caspar Philips (1690-1775)
Title: [Antique etching, ets] J.C. Philips, INDIAANSCHE PAGODEN EN SCHRIKKELYKE BOETDOENINGEN of LICHAAMS KWELLINGE DER FAKIRS, published 1731.
Description: Jungle with Indian temples and fakirs chastising themselves in various ways (hanging from tress, etc...). The plate contains numbers that are explained somewhere else in a legend. The illustration was used in Thomas Salmon's: Hedendaagsche historie, of Tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren (...), third volume Behelzende (...) India (...) Malabar, Kormandel, en (...) Ceilon. Translated from the Englis by M. van Goch; published in Amsterdam by Isaak Tirion in 1731.Titled below: INDIAANSCHE PAGODEN EN SCHRIKKELYKE BOETDOENINGEN of LICHAAMS KWELLINGE DER FAKIRS.Signed and dated below: I.C. Philips del et fecit 1731. Etching on paper with some margins; plate mark: 178 x 277 mm; total: 193 x 298 mm; two vertical creases, due to folding, corners also folded, light browning on the margins, otherwise in very good condition.

Keywords: Asia|Book illustrations|India|Nude