Some illustrations by Margaret Ayer for Jean Bothwell’s ‘River boy of Kashmir’ (1946)
It is interesting to note that a lot of the illustrations in such books were based on the imagery created by photographs of Kashmir that were reaching Kashmir.
The above illustration is based on a photograph by Randolph B. Holmes in around 1915
from Tyndale Biscoe’s book ‘Character Building in Kashmir’ (1920) |
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Something aside: This is funny…it took me sometime to remember where I have seen that face…
Doug Wildey’s Hadji Singh of Calcutta from the cartoon series Jonny Quest
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