Hindostan Or British India. (with) Continuation Of British India. Published By J.H. Colton & Co. No. 172 William St. New York. Entered ... 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. ... New York. No. 30.
This is a painting by Edwin Lord Weeks entitled 'Along the Ghats, Mathura (or Picture Of The Nile)' (c. 1880) depicting people bathing in the river and reclining on the ghats (steps) in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.
This is an 1898 image from Ella Constance Sykes's travel memoir 'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle' of Qal'eh Dokhtar, a castle erected in 209 AD by Ardashir I in present-day Fars, Iran.