FRASER ALBUM UNBOUND: DECOLONISING COMPANY PAINTING IN 19TH CENTURY INDIA
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24 Nov
2021
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Southasian Painting
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Yuthika Sharma
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Image: A street scene in the village of Rania, from the Fraser Album, British Library Board, Add. Or 4057.
The session will introduce the Fraser Album, a compilation of portraits of individuals from Anglo-Mughal society made for the Scotsman and East India Company Officer William Fraser and his brother James Baillie Fraser in early 19th century Delhi. Highlighting its role as a muraqqa, as both memoir and scrapbook, the talk will assess the album through the modalities of ethnography, the landed survey, and the gaze within the context of Company Painting in India.
This Lecture is part of the Postgraduate Southasian Painting Course “ARTS OF THE BOOK IN SOUTH ASIA”
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Duration -
November 24, 2021
Timing: 6:15 - 8:30 PM
Registrations Closed
Yuthika Sharma
Dr. Yuthika Sharma’s research focuses on artistic exchange in South Asia in the early modern period, colonialism and culture, feminism as well as landscape history. Her recent articles look at portraiture and the practice of proto-colonial survey strategies, the contested art history of ivory souvenirs in colonial India as well as the role of ‘oriental’ commodities in the British domestic sphere. Dr. Sharma has also curated a number of exhibitions in the UK and the US. Her research has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust, The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art.