Portrait of the Hindus
Subtitle: Balthazar Solvyns & the European Image of India, 1760-1824
Publisher: Mapin Publishing Pvt,
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9781890206529
Subjects: Hinduism; Hinduism - General; Religion; Religion - World Religions
First sentence: Calcutta in the late eighteenth century was an unlikely place for a Flemish marine artist, born to a prominent Antwerp merchant family, but for Francois Balthazar Solvyns (1760-1824), it was to be his home for thirteen years, and the product of his work there, a portrait of the Hindus in a collection of more than 250 etchings, would consume his life.