Author Name
Hardgrave, Robert L., Jr.
Title A PORTRAIT OF THE HINDUS: BALTHAZAR SOLVYNS & THE EUROPEAN IMAGE OF INDIA 1760-1824.
Binding Hard Cover
Book Condition Near Fine
Jacket Condition Very Good+
Publisher New York Oxford University Press 2004
ISBN Number
0195220412 / 9780195220414
Illustrator Francois Balthazar Solvyns.
Seller ID 29291
568 pp, 12 1/8" H. 79 colour and 285 b&w illustrations. "The Flemish artist Francois Balthazar Solvyns (1760-1824) is little known, but his series of etchings of the Hindus provides a rich and compelling portrait of India two hundred years ago. With commitment to faithful representation and with the sensi-bilities of an astutely observant artist, Solvyns portrays the people of India in their occupations, festi-vals and cultural life with immediacy and sympathy. Solvyns' life is itself fascinating, and his portrayal of India constitutes an unrivalled visual account of the people of Bengal in the late eighteenth century." Contents: Francois Balthazar Solvyns Life and Work: Acknowledgements; Introduction; From Antewerp to Calcutta: A Flemish Artist in India; Return to Europe: Les Hindous; Balthazar Solvyns, Artist and Orientalist; Les Hindous: Preliminary Discourse. A Portrait of the Hindus: Solvyn's Calcutta; Castes and Occupations; Dresses of Hindu Men and Hindu Women; Servants of the European Household in Calcutta; Fakirs and Religious Mendicants; Musical Instruments; Festivals and Ceremonies; Sati; Modes of Smoking, &c.; Modes of Conveyance; Boats of Bengal; Natural History: Plants and Animals; Indian Heads; Appendix I. Solvyns in Libraries; Bibliography; Index & Glossary. Minor 2" wrinkle in cloth on front board, wrinkle in front pastedown. Dust jackat has minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, some light color offset fron boards on inside surface.
Francois
Balthazar
Solvyns,
Flemish
Artists,
18th
Century,
19th
Century,
India,
Calcutta,
Hindu,
Hindus,
Castes,
Occupations,
Costume,
Dress,
Hindu
Men,
Hindu
Women,
Servants,
European
Households,
Fakirs,
Religious
Mendicants,
Musical
Instruments,
Festivals,
Ceremonies,
Celebrations,
Sati,
Smoking,
Transportation,
Bengal,
Boats,
Natural
History,
Plants,
Animals,
Portraits,
Ahir,
Ayahs,
Gagdi,
William
Baillie,
Bajra,
Bak,
Banian,
Betel,
Black
Town,
Brahmins,
Chata,
Umbrellas,
Etchings,
Thomas
Daniell,
William
Daniell,
Arthur
Devis,
Dhol,
Dom,
Durga
Puja,
East
India
Company,
Giles
Eyre,
Ghanta,
Warren
Hastings,
Physiognomy,
William
Hodges,
Hooka,
Huka,
Jhapan,
Kali,
Kali
Puja,
Kalighat,
Khicuri,
Khol,
Kuplyans,
Majhi,
Mal,
Manu,
Mantra,
Muslims,
Musical
Instruments,
Raja
Nabakrishna
Deb,
Naga,
Nautch,
Oriya,
Palanquins,
Pan,
Pariah,
Pinnace,
Puja,
Rawani,
Sais,
Sankh,
Suttee,
Sarkar,
Sikh,
Sitar,
Smoking,
Snakes,
Sudra,
Tili,
Vaisya,
Marquess
Wellesley,
Women,
Zamindar.
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