Kashmir by V.V. Vereshchagin, 1885

Two oil-painting of Kashmiri landscape by Russian artist V.V. Vereshchaginmore known for painting graphic battle scenes. He visited the place around April, 1885.


Mountain stream in Kashmir
1885
Glacier on way from Kashmir to Ladakh [via: wikipaintings.org ]
1885
[Update:  Man Mohan Munshi Ji identified the place as Machoi Glacier between Zogilla Pass and Matyan.

There were later used in his two volume autobiograpical travelogue ‘Vassili Verestchagin, painter, soldier, traveller; autobiographical sketches ‘(1887) with the capter on India by his wife.

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