Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v2.c8.11

v2.c8.11

In the preparation of Plates for Volume II, I have followed, as far as possible, the advice of some of my able critics to reproduce the important subjects on a large scale, so that the technical or artistic detail, which sometimes suffers by reduction, may remain clearly apparent. This principle, although duly observed in the printing of Part I, wherein detailed reproductions of the two Bodhisattvas (Plates XXV and XXXII) and the Black Princess (Plate XXXIII) are given, has been followed in a more liberal manner in this volume, and four colour plates (XIII b and XXXI b) give detailed reproductions of subjects which, on account of their exceptional qualities, will appeal to the artist or to the general reader.