Benares India Carl Shreve
Original vintage travel poster for the holy pilgrimage city of Benares / Varanasi located on the Ganges River in India featuring a colourful painting by Carl Shreve (1901-1988), depicting a lady in a sari and blue head scarf carrying a jug on her head, walking between buildings in the foreground, a lady standing by a street vendor sitting in the shade under an umbrella and a tree in front of the shiny golden domes and spires of the historic Kashi Vishwanath Temple in the background, the blue sky above and title text in English, Bengali বেনারস, Hindi Devanagari बनारस and Urdu/Persian بنارس below . Printed in India for the Government of India by G. Claridge & Co., Ltd., Bombay, India. Good condition, repaired tears, creasing, minor staining, translation written below lettering.
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