A Portrait of the Hindus
Subtitle: Balthazar Solvyns & the European Image of India 1760-1824 (South Asia Research) (South Asia Research)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 5, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780195220414
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.