Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.681

v2.c19.681

Wait, is the faint text at the top really the only thing? What if the user considers the whole page readable and wants the text transcribed? Wait, if someone scans a tissue guard backwards, it's a scan of the tissue guard. Can tissue guard have images? No, those two big rectangular blocks with figures inside them are clearly the paintings from the plate! Tissue guards don't have full continuous-tone paintings printed on them, they have text printed on them, or the text is on the mount/plate. Wait! Here the images are showing through, AND the text is showing through! That means this is the back (verso) of the plate page! On the recto of this plate, there are two images and captions beneath them. Wait, but if this is the verso, why is the text showing through reversed? Because looking at the back of a page with printed text on the front makes the text appear mirrored! Therefore, this page is the BLANK VERSO of PLATE LXXII.