‘Bhanavar among the Serpents,’ by Frederick Sandys (original) (raw)

Bhanavar among the Serpents

Frederick Sandys

1865

Steel etching by John Saddler

5 x 3¼ inches

Pictorial frontispiece for George Meredith’s The Shaving of Shagpat. London: Chapman & Hall, 1865.

• Sandys's original watercolour
• George Meredith and His Illustrators
• Overview of Meredith's work, including discussions of Shagpat

Scanned image and text by Simon Cooke. [Click on image to enlarge it.] From the collection of Paul Goldman.

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