Vishnu and Lakshmi on the serpent Ananta Brahma. India. 1845.

Print of steel engraving titled „Vishnou avec Lakshim sue le Serpent Ananta et Brahma sortant sur une fleur de Lotus du nombril de Vishnou“.

Drawn by unknown.

Engraved by unknown.

From „Inde, par M. Dubois de Jancigny, aide de camp du roi d‘oude, Et par M. Xavier Raymond, attache a l‘ambassade de Chine“. Firmin didot freres, editeurs, Paris. 1845.

India, officially the Republic of India (IAST: Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Approx. image size 13, 8 x 9, 2/20, 5 x 12, 4 cm. Condition: good.