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Sita Ram's Painted Views of India: Lord Hastings's Journey from Calcutta to the Punjab, 1814 15
J. P. Losty
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Description for Sita Ram's Painted Views of India: Lord Hastings's Journey from Calcutta to the Punjab, 1814 15
Hardcover. Brings alive the seventeen-month long expedition in a flotilla of 220 boats from Barrackpore past Patna, Benares, Allahabad and Cawnpore, and then overland to Lucknow, Delhi and the Punjab, through paintings of Colonial India. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 315 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1848.
Lord Hastings's journal of his travels from Calcutta to the Punjab in 1814-1815 records the events and views of this journey accompanied by 200 large watercolour illustrations by Sita Ram. This book includes an edited version of the journal charting his passage through the India of the early nineteenth century. Though Sita Ram's picturesque paintings were a sharp departure from the accurate `Company' views of Indian monuments, they nonetheless revealed his eye for architectural detail. Taking the readers along as part of Lord Hastings's party, J. P. Losty brings alive the seventeen- month long expedition in a flotilla of 220 ... Read more
Lord Hastings's journal of his travels from Calcutta to the Punjab in 1814-1815 records the events and views of this journey accompanied by 200 large watercolour illustrations by Sita Ram. This book includes an edited version of the journal charting his passage through the India of the early nineteenth century. Though Sita Ram's picturesque paintings were a sharp departure from the accurate `Company' views of Indian monuments, they nonetheless revealed his eye for architectural detail. Taking the readers along as part of Lord Hastings's party, J. P. Losty brings alive the seventeen- month long expedition in a flotilla of 220 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500518274
SKU
9780500518274
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About J. P. Losty
J. P. Losty was formerly Curator-in-Charge of the extensive Indian visual collections in the British Library in London. He has published many books and papers on various aspects of the painting of India from the 12th to the 19th centuries.
Reviews for Sita Ram's Painted Views of India: Lord Hastings's Journey from Calcutta to the Punjab, 1814 15
'A priceless combination of text and images: a unique insight into a lost world' - The Lady 'Ram's large watercolours, over 200 of them, executed with exquisite precision, are an invaluable archive of the Colonial era and delightful in themselves' - Mature Times