The Garden of Kama—Frontispiece

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Five Hindu female dancers prance around a garden as a parrot carrying a kissing couple flies past

The garden of Kama.

(Frontispiece.)

Artist

Name:: Shaw, Byam
Dates:: 1872-1919
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Color Process
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Robarts Library, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: The garden of Kama
Author:: Hope, Laurence
Publisher:: London, New York: John Lane Company, William Heinemann, n.d. [1914]
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Five Hindu celestial female dancers (devatas) are prancing around in a garden against a background of trees covered with fruit as a green parrot carrying a majestic kissing couple flies past above their heads.

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