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Sita Ram’s Painted Views Of India

J P Losty

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Lord Hastingss journal of his travel from Calcutta to the Punjab in 1814-1815, accompanied by watercolour illustrations by Sita Ram, records the events and views of this journey in more than 200 large paintings. Though Sita Rams picturesque paintings were a sharp departure from the accurate ?Company views of Indian monuments, they nonetheless revea...led his eye for architectural detail. Taking the readers along as part of Lord Hastingss party, J.P. Losty brings alive the 17-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 Sita Rams never before published paintings of Colonial India.

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  • JP Losty (1945–2021) was Curator-in-charge of the Extensive Indian Visual Collections in the British Library in London. He worked in the Print, Drawings and Photographs section of the British Library; first as Curator and retiring as Head of the section in 2005. Between 2010 and 2021, he was regularly invited to contribute to a range of exhibition catalogues including The Indian Portrait, Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, and Masters of Indian Painting.Jerry published many books and papers on various aspects of the paintings of India from the 12th to the 19th centuries. His major books include The Art of the Book in India(1982), Calcutta City of Palaces(1990), The Ramayana(2008), Sita Ram’s Painted Views of India: Lord Hastings’s Journey from Calcutta to the Punjab, 1814-15(2015), and Court and Courtship: Indian Miniatures in the Tapi Collection(2020). In acknowledgement of his lifetime work on Indian art, Jerry was awarded the Colonel James Tod award in Udaipur in March 2016.

ISBN
9789351941378
Binding
Hardback
Page Extent
256
Weight (kg)
2.882
Height (in)
9
Width (in)
12
Subject
Art
Published Date
13/11/15
Publisher
Roli Books

Author

  • JP Losty (1945–2021) was Curator-in-charge of the Extensive Indian Visual Collections in the British Library in London. He worked in the Print, Drawings and Photographs section of the British Library; first as Curator and retiring as Head of the section in 2005. Between 2010 and 2021, he was regularly invited to contribute to a range of exhibition catalogues including The Indian Portrait, Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, and Masters of Indian Painting.Jerry published many books and papers on various aspects of the paintings of India from the 12th to the 19th centuries. His major books include The Art of the Book in India(1982), Calcutta City of Palaces(1990), The Ramayana(2008), Sita Ram’s Painted Views of India: Lord Hastings’s Journey from Calcutta to the Punjab, 1814-15(2015), and Court and Courtship: Indian Miniatures in the Tapi Collection(2020). In acknowledgement of his lifetime work on Indian art, Jerry was awarded the Colonel James Tod award in Udaipur in March 2016.

ISBN
9789351941378
Binding
Hardback
Page Extent
256
Weight (kg)
2.882
Height (in)
9
Width (in)
12
Subject
Art
Published Date
13/11/15
Publisher
Roli Books

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