A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s3.t1.15
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s3.t1.15
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M. Foucher has kindly selected No. 5 as being one of the best and most suitable for reproduction (Plate LXII). It depicts Buddha in the ‘earth-touching’ pose surrounded by a host of worshippers on earth and in the clouds, and is framed in a pretty border. The figures of the adoring Lamas are numbered, I do not know why. Similar numbers are inserted in other pictures. I cannot think very highly of the picture as a work of art, apart from the colouring, which is, of course, lost in a photograph.