Description: Mullaperiyaru Dam Periyar India Antique Print Old Victorian Picture 1899 A black & white print, from a disbound book The Queen's Empire 2 1899 with another print on the reverse. Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 11.5" x 9" or 29.5cm x 23cm, including text and border. Actual picture size approx 8.75" x 6.5" or 22cm x 16.5cm This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description. All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) THE PERIYAR DAM, SOUTH INDIA. The history of the great tanks or water reservoirs of India begins very far back, and for hundreds of years past the art of storing the abundant supplies of the rainy season to provide for the needs of the rainless months has been known and practised. But constant wars and disturbances have reduced many of the most famous and ancient tanks to ruin, and it has remained for British engineers to take up the work and to carry it to an extent far greater than ever was dreamed of by the former rulers of Hindustan. We here see the great dam which arrests the stream of the Periyar river and forms the large reservoir of which a portion only appears in the illustration. The little figures of the workers ascending the outside of the dam serve to give the scale to the picture and to reveal the enormous proportions of this noble work. Every year, happily, the storage of water in India is being extended and improved.
Price: 6.99 GBP
Location: Dereham
End Time: 2024-09-21T06:18:03.000Z
Shipping Cost: 17.5 GBP
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Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 60 days
Size: Small
Artist: Nicholas & Co
Colour: Black
Style: Realism
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Material: Paper
Date of Creation: Antique (Pre-1900)
Listed by Self-Representing Artist?: No
Year of Production: 1899
Features: Original 1899 Bookplate
Width (Inches): 11.5
Subject: Landscape
Originality: Original
Height (Inches): 9
Print Surface: Paper
Type: Print
Item Length: Prints measure width and height only
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Region of Origin: n/a
Culture: n/a
Source: Disbound Antique Book Published 1899
Item Height: 8.75 Inches inc Border & Text
Item Width: 11.25 Inches inc Border
Time Period Produced: 1850-1899
Period: Victorian (1830-1900)
Theme: Continents & Countries, Cultures & Ethnicities, History
Production Technique: Lithography
