*"Pagoda di Ramiseram," an architectural print, 1780*

Source: ebay, Sept. 2006


*"Pagoda at Ramisseram," by Henry Salt, 1809* (BL); *more information (BL)*



"Choultry at Ramiseram," a steel engraving, 1837, by R. A. Daniell; published in Philadelphia, 1836

Source: ebay, Apr. 2009


*"Procession réligieuse dans les galeries du couvent de Ramisseram près de Ceylan. Juin 1841," by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov* (BL) [*Saltuikov 1841*]


*Entrance to the Temple, Rameswaram. Drawn by W.G.P. Jenkins, William W. Whelpdale and Ravanat Naik; a watercolor, c.1849* (BL)


*"Choultry at Ramesvaram," gouache, Trichinopoly style, c.1850* (BL) [*painting 1850*]


*"Corridor 700 feet long, splendid granite temple of Ramisseram, Paumben Island, So. India," c.1903* (BL) [*corridor 1903*]


"Rameshwaram: Street with Tower Gateway of the Great Temple" and "Rameshwaram: Hall of Pillars of the Great Temple," two photogravures by Martin Hurlimann, 1928; also *"A temple school at Rameshwaram"*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2006





The entrance to the Ramanathan temple

Source: http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/27836/
(downloaded Feb. 2009)


The temple complex as it looks today

Source: http://www.tn.gov.in/dsvp/dtpphoto1/images/kan/kan22.jpg
(downloaded Sept. 2005)


*BL* -- Try a search for "rameswaram" for many more early photos


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