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INDIAN PAINTING FOR THE BRITISH:
12 BOOKS
PATNA PAINTING
By MILDRED ARCHER
This edition was published privately for the Royal India
Society for members only in 1947
The first book by the great historian of British-Indian art.
Rare, elusive title published in a small edition.
pp. xv, 48 + 48 b&w plates on art paper
Softcover / 8.5 x 5.5 inches
Includes biographies of Patna painters of the 19th
century and portraits of some of them chapters are:
THE ORIGINS OF THE PATNA SCHOOL
THE PATNA MARKET
THEPATNA SCHOOLIN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
THE SCHOOL AND ITS INFLUENCES
Appendices have GENEALOGICAL TABLE [of Patna
painters], List of collections, Bibliographical notes and
Index of artists and patrons.
INDIAN PAINTING FOR THE BRITISH 1770-1880
By MILDRED and W. G. ARCHER
A rare book, published by Oxford University Press in UK
in 1955 and never reprinted.
A seminal and exhaustive work not superseded so far in
scholarship.
Covers Indian painting for the British in
MURSHIDABAD, PATNA, BENARES, LUCKNOW,
DELHI, SOUTHERN INDIA, WESTERN INDIA,
NATURAL HISTORY PAINTINGS and CAUSES OF
DECLINE.
pp. xiv, 155 + 24 plates on art paper and WITH NOTES,
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX
Very fine hardcover bound in brick-coloured cloth. No
dustjacket. Near Mint condition for is age.
size 10.5 x 7.5 inches
INDIAN PAINTING FOR THE BRITISH 1780-1880
A large and lovely full-colour catalogue issued by a
London gallery in 2001
28 items, each with full-page illustrationand description
on facing page. 1 is a foldout [procession of mughal
emperor akbar II].
Covers Calcutta, Patna, Lucknow, Delhi artists' works
12 x 9.5 inches
cardcover with dustjacket
ROOM FOR WONDER - INDIAN PAINTING DURING
THE BRITISH PERIOD 1760-1880
By Stuart Cary Welch
New York: American Federation of Arts / Exhibition
catalogue
1978
pp. 191 and profusely illustrated
softcover
size 9.5 x 9.5 inches
INDIAN PAINTING DURING THE BRITISH PERIOD
Rare 1986 sale catalogue of a London gallery
pp. 36 with 10 full-page colour plates printed on one
side only and 9 b&w small illustrations in the text. In
addition the cover is a 'double spread' painting with 6
characters shown front and back
A totalof 53 items are listed
Softcover / 8.5 x 7 inches
INDIAN PAINTING FOR BRITISH PATRONS 1770-1860
46-page catalogue of an exhibition held in London in
February-March 1991
Foreword by Niall Hobhouse
21 items with full-page colour illustrations andfacing
detailed descriptions. 2 items have 2 small b&w
illustrations to support text.
Softcover/ 9.5 x 7 inches
INDIAN PAINTERS - BRITISH MASTERS
Company Paintings from the W. R. Johnston Collection
By Richard Runnels
A lovely large-sized catalogue issued in 2004 in Australia
pp. 32 with bibliography
8 full-page illustrations + 13 illustrations in the text
Softcover / 12 x 8.5 inches
A JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA - Company School
Pictures