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BELNOS, Mrs. S.C.
Twenty-four plates illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal.
RARE FIRST EDITION. Explanatory text to plates in English and French. Relatively little is known about Mrs. Belnos. Her husband, Jean-Jacques Belnos, was a French miniaturist and lithographer, who had travelled to India in 1807, and established a practice in Calcutta as a painter of miniatures and portraits of the British, a business which his widow seems to have continued following his death. 'Mrs. Belnos may have been an Indian... Jean-Jacques Belnos, the lithographic printer[?] of the above plates, was probably her husband' (Colas 292.)
- Published
- London: Smith and Elder. Paris : A. Colin, [ca 1832].
- References
- Abbey Travel II 458 (for a later issue); Colas 292; Bobins 223.
- Plates
- 24
- Binding/Size
- L=FOLIO
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Smith and Elder. Paris : A. Colin, [ca 1832].
- Ref
- 5084
FIRST EDITION. Small folio, lithographed title, pictorial title, 24 hand-coloured lithographs after Mrs. Belnos by A . Colin and J.J. Belnos. Leaf of descriptive text to each plate, recto in French, verso in English. Contemporary calf over green paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered direct to upper board, rule and letters in gilt to spine, original pictorial paper wrappers bound as the title. A scarce work. The lithographer of the plates, J.J. Belnos, is thought to be the author's husband. Coloured plates in order: 1. A Hindoo returning from Callee-Ghaut. 2. A Hindoo Woman serving her husband dinner. 3. A Hindoo Woman exposes her infant's body on the borders of the Ganges. 4. A dying Hindoo brought to the Ganges. 5. Offering to the Ganges. 6-7. Feast of the Churruck Poojah. 8. Ablutions of a young Hindoo Woman of rank on the banks of the Ganges. 9. A Hindoo Woman exposing her infant supposed to be under the influence of a malignant spirit. 10. The village of Gooroo receiving the homage of travelers. 11. The Hoolly Festival. 12. The Village Gossips. 13. Silk and Cloth merchant. 14. Interior of a native hut. 15. Bayee's or dancing Boys. 16. Three dancing Girls of Hindoostan. 17-18. A Nautch. 19. The corpse of a native woman floating on the Ganges. 20. A Bunderwallah. 21. Pykars or Pedlars. 22. Jogees / Voiragee / Mendiant Musulman / Mussulman Beggar. 23. A civilian going out. 24. Men of low cast skinning a dead Bull.
