The Effect of Prevalence of Illustrations of Lithography Books in Qajar Era on the Emergence of Main Entrance's Paintings in Ganjalikhan Bath house

This article studies paintings of the main entrance in Ganjalikhan bath house of Kerman in parallel with the effect of prevalence of lithography illustrations on the emergence of them. These paintings which are above the main entrance in the bath house are just unskilled ones joining this historical building maybe for this reason it hasn’t been studied so much. These painting are the continuation of Qajars paintings and at the time of their drawing the building changed in to a coffeehouse for a while. the author presumes that the painter of these paintings has used the illustrations of lithography books which were popular on that time. In this direction among explaining the painting of main entrance he tries to find the similarities of them and the illustration of lithography books and also studies the cultural and social atmosphere in which these kinds of paintings were adopted. The research method was descriptive library and the comparison of the paintings on main entrance with the illustration of lithography books was done in order to prove the existing similarity and their influence on the painter. The results show that from the viewpoint of both from and subject these are a lot of similarities between the mentioned paintings and the illustrations of lithography books and it is very likely that the painter of these popular illustration on the main entrance was Mirza shokr-ol-lah.