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.
Item is an illustration board with original Arthur Lismer pen and ink drawings on both sides, commissioned for Dalhousie College Centennial Commemoration 1818.