Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.674

v2.c19.674

Wait! The page itself is scanned from the back/verso, showing the bleed-through or offset transfer from the facing text page or the back of the plate! Notice the faint text at the top: `PLATE LXXII` is facing correctly? No, wait: Look at the top center: "PLATE LXXII" is printed right side up, very faint! Wait, look at "PLATE LXXII": P L A T E L X X I I. It is normal direction! Wait, no: Let's look at the mirrored text: "PLATE LXXII" "B" "Fig. 89" Wait, why is it mirrored? In many art books with tissue guards, the text is printed on the tissue guard, or it's a plate with show-through/offset, or it's a scan of the back of a plate. Wait, is the image rotated? If it's rotated 180 degrees? Let's read upside down: If upside down: Wait! Rotate 180 degrees: At the top (currently bottom): Image of a woman with hair... but wait, look at the text: `PLATE LXXII` -> if inverted, it's: No, the text is mirrored horizontally! Look at "PLATE LXXII" at the middle: `PLATE LXXII` -> `I I X X L E T A L P` (backward). Wait, "P L A T E L X X I I" at the very top is normal! No, look at the top: it says "PLATE LXXII" right side up, faint. Wait, actually, this entire page has almost no directly printed foreground text except maybe the faint heading at the top: `@H PLATE LXXII`