Keyword: Women – Image Gallery
Hindoo Woman throwing herself (19th century?)
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The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17 - 18)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1602 - 1607]
from: Salsmann, Wilhelm. P. Ovid Nasonis XV Metamorphoseon librorvm figurae elegantissime a Cr[i]spiano Passaeo laminis aeneis incisae: quibus subiuncta sunt epigrammata latine ac germanice conscripta, fabularum omnium summam breviter ac erudite comprehendentia, Cologne, Joannem Jansonium, 1607
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Naauw-keurige aanteekeningen van William Methold (1707)
from: van der Aa, P. Naauw-keurige aanteekeningen van William Methold, Presiden van de Engelsse Maatschappy, gehouden op sijn Voyagie, in het jaar 1619, Leiden, 1619
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Empire of Great Mogol (18th century?)
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Sacrifice of Iphigenia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Jephte sacrifices his daughter (1493)
from: Cest le mirouer de la redempcion humaine (GW M4304210), Fol, f4r [Paris]
Stabi, Berlin
Jephtha sacrificing his daughter (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 34v
British Museum, London
Preparation for a Suttee (1816)
British Library, London (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html)
Sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter (18th Century)
City Art Gallery, Southampton
Handprints of women who committed sati
Wall of the Junagarh Fort (Bikaner, Rajasthan, India)
Veuve hindoue allant au bucher (1797)
from: Abdul-Kerym, Voyage de l'Inde a la Mekke, ca. 1797
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The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1755)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sacrifice of Polyxena [1590-1599]
from: Metamorphoseon sive transformationum ovidianarum...
Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Corsini; volume 57N1
Tobiolus Makes a Propitiatory Sacrifice (1543)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ladies of Krishna's Harem are Shown the Sacrificial Horse (1598)
from: Razmnama Mughal
Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library, London
Suttee Pillar at a Benares Burning Ghat (19th century)
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Vedova indiana che si abbrucia (1816)
from: Ferrario, G. Il costumo antico e moderno, Florence, c.1816
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Olimpia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Sati Funeral Practice (1611)
from: Johannes Isacius Pontanus, "Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia", Amsterdam, 1611, p. 189
Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allow its continuation (1815)
London, Wellcome Collection
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
Suttee. Gouache painting by a painter of Thanjavur (Tanjore) [1800]
from: Tanjore
London, Wellcome Collection
Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The pyre; the bride preparing to sacrifice herself (1650)
from: Nawʻi Khabushani, Muhammad Riz̤a, Sūz u Gudāz, fol. 31v
Chester Betty Library, Dublin, Ireland MS Pers 268, fol. 31b
Idolatres (1685)
from: Allain Manesson Mallet, Description de l'Univers, , contenant les differents systêmes du monde, les cartes générals et particulières de la géographie ancienne et modern. Vol.: De l'Asie.
Vedova di un indiano (1845)
from: Atlante Illustrato, Florence, 1845
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Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1761(?))
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Burninge of a Banion Woman (1630s)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 123
Iefté, Principe del pueblo ysraelitico [...] [1580 - 1583]
Bibliothèque National de France, Paris
The sacrifice of Polyxena [1732 - 1733]
Getty Museum, Getty Villa, Malibù
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1553)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Veuve indouve hallant (1825)
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Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17th Century)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Suttee (1878)
from: Murray Smith, D. Round the World: A Story of Travel Compiled from the Narrative of Ida Pfeiffer, London, 1878
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Iphigenia Sacrifice (18th Century)
Private collection
The Sacrifice of Polyxena (ca 1470-1475)
from: The Florentine Picture-Chronicle' page from the album (recto of 1889,0527.58): Pyrrhus (Neoptolemos) sacrificing Polyxena on the tomb of his father Achilles
British Museum, London
Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1690 - 1700]
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1723 - 1743)
from: Picart, Bernard; Bernard, Jean Frederic. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, 1723-1743
Satī. Gentile women of the caste of the cattle drivers, who is buried alive with her husband after he had died [1540]
Codice Casanatense, Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, fol. 64r, Rome
Les veuves du Cormandel (1725)
from: van der Aa, P. La galerie agreable du monde. Tome premier des Indes Orientales, Leiden, c. 1725
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Altar of the Holy Virgins (16. sec)
Museu de São Roque, Lisbon
Diana en Iphigenia (17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The sacrifice of Polyxena (1625)
Roma, Musei Capitolini
Neoptolemus sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's tomb (1539)
from: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Paris 1539 (Denys Janot), Vol. 3, p. 150
Jephthah’s Daughter (16th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
Manner in which they Bury Themselves (1728)
from: Picart, B. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, tome II, Amsterdam, 1728
London, Wellcome Collection
Numer., Cap. V, v. 17, 26-28 (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXCIII
Sacrifice of Lystra (1515)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Queen Nzinga sacrifices a man [illustration of Dapper Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten] (1676)
from: Olfert Dapper, Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten, Amsterdam, Meurs,1668, p. 238
Scene of sacrifice [1721 - 1722]
Palazzo Reale, Turin
Immolation of a Hindoo Widow (1814)
from: Lester. The Gallery of Nature and Art, 1814
London, Wellcome Collection
Hindoo Woman about to be Buried (1811)
from: Goldsmith, J. Geography on a Popular Plan, London, Richard Phillips, 1811
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Iphigenia Agamemnoni immolanda, à Diana (cerva eius in locum substituta) surripitur (1606)
from: Antonio Tempesta, Metamorphoseon sive transformationum ovidianarum libri quindicem aeneis formis ab Antonio Tempesta Fiorentino incisi, et in pictorum antiquitatisque studiosorum gratiam nunc primum exquisitissimis sumptibus a Petro de Iode anteuerpiano in lucem editi, vol. 12, Anversa 1606, plate 112
Femmes Benjanoises brulees (1725)
from: van der Aa, P. La galerie agreable du monde. Tome premier des Indes Orientales, Leiden, c. 1725
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Scene of a Sati, with a woman throwing herself into the flames amid a crowd playing trumpets. Above, a winged devil holds the banner with the book's title and the torch with which he lights the ritual fire. (1670)
from: Abraham Rogerius, Le Théâtre de l’idolatrie ou la porte ouverte, Amsterdam, Jean Schipper, 1670, title page
Berenice offers her hair to Venus [1662 - 1663]
Palazzo Reale, Turin
Ifigenia libens collum submitte securi; Non aliter, quando Troia perire potest (1713)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The union of the couple on the pyre (1657)
from: Sūz u Gudāz ms, Iran, Walters Manuscript W. 649, fol. 19b (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Nine female deities (?) performing a yagna, a fire sacrifice (1800-1900)
London, Wellcome Collection
Vos superi testes pietatis habebo [...] (18th Century)
Fondazione Pietro Mondadori, Reggio Emilia
The Sacrifice of Polixena (1647)
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Hindoo Widow Burning Herself with the Corpse of the Husband (1820)
from: Shoberl, F. The World in Miniature: Hindoostan, London, Ackerman, 1820s
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Manner in which the Women in India Burn (1728)
from: Picart, B. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, tome II, Amsterdam, 1728
London, Wellcome Collection
Woman Throwing Herself in the Pyre (1699)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 94
Tobiolus makes a Propitiatory Sacrifice, from The Story of Tobias (1543)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
La figliuola di Iefte all'altare per esser sacrificata (18th Century)
Convento dei Canonici Lateranensi - Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1710-1720]
Musée de l'Histoire de France, Versailles
Human Sacrifice in front of an Aztec Pyramid (1579)
from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 280v
Virgin in Glory (1590-1600)
Museu de São Roque, Lisbon
A Gentoo Woman Burning herself (1768)
from: Cavendish Drake, E. A, Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, London, J. Cooke, 1768
Les femmes Indiennes se brulent (1725)
from: van der Aa, P. La galerie agreable du monde. Tome premier des Indes Orientales, Leiden, c. 1725
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Hindu Princess Committing Suttee (17th century)
Wellcome Library, London
Indian Woman Burning Alive (18th century)
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A Suttee (1858)
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Abbruciamento delle mogli vedove (1740-56)
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A Gentoo Burning Herself (1783)
from: The Geographical Magazine, London, Harrison & Co., 1783
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Suicide of a Woman on an Altar (1532)
from: Francesco Petrarca, Von der Artzney bayder Glück, des guten vnd widerwertigen: unnd weß sich ain yeder inn Gelück und Unglück halten sol; auß dem Lateinischen in das Teutsch gezogen, Augspurg, Steyner, 1532, p. clviii
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Scene of a sati. In the foreground, a widowed woman (encountered by Della Valle on November 12, 1623) on horseback holds a mirror and a lemon amidst a crowd. In the background, a woman throws herself into the flames of a funeral pyre (1665)
from: Della Valle, Pietro, De volkome beschryving der voortreffelijke reizen van de deurluchtige reisiger Pietro della Valle, edelman van Romen, in veel voorname gewesten des werrelts, sedert het jaer 1615, tot in 't jaar 1626 gedaan. Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1666, vol. 5, pag. 163
Favorite Wife of Sevajee (1851)
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Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1495)
from: Raoul Le Fèvre: Recueil des histoires de Troie (Belgium)
Paris, BnF, Français 22552, fol. 227
Iphigenia Sacrifice [1609]
Palazzo Giustiniani-Odescalchi, Bassano Romano
Sati (suttee): a woman immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist. (1800-1899)
from: India
London, Wellcome Collection
Handprints left by the wives of the maharaja before the Sati [1843]
Mehrangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India
Brulement des femmes (1700)
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Burning of a Hindu Widow at Her Husband’s Funeral Pyre (1666?)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 87
Woman Going to Burn (1811)
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Sacrificio di Ifigenia [1760]
Schlossmuseum, Weimar
the young Hindu woman accompanies her bridegroom's coffin to the funeral pyre and decides to commit sati (1657)
from: Walters manuscript W.649 (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum











