Portrait of the Hindus: Balthazar Solvyns & the European image of India, 1760-1824 / Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.

By: Hardgrave, Robert LMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press in asociation with Mapin Pub., 2004Description: 568 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cmISBN: 9780195220414; 0195220412Subject(s): Portraits, Indic -- India | Hindus -- India | Artists -- Europe | India -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 922.945
Contents:
Pt. I. Francois Balthazar Solvyns Life and Work -- Ch. 1. From Antwerp to Calcutta: A Flemish Artist in India -- Ch. 2. Return to Europe: Les Hindous -- Ch. 3. Balthazar Solvyns, Artist and Orientalist -- Ch. 4. Les Hindous: Preliminary Discourse -- Pt. II. A Portrait of the Hindus -- Solvyns's Calcutta -- Castes and Occupations -- Dresses of Hindu Men and of 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 -- App. I. Solvyns in Libraries.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-561) and index.

Pt. I. Francois Balthazar Solvyns Life and Work -- Ch. 1. From Antwerp to Calcutta: A Flemish Artist in India -- Ch. 2. Return to Europe: Les Hindous -- Ch. 3. Balthazar Solvyns, Artist and Orientalist -- Ch. 4. Les Hindous: Preliminary Discourse -- Pt. II. A Portrait of the Hindus -- Solvyns's Calcutta -- Castes and Occupations -- Dresses of Hindu Men and of 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 -- App. I. Solvyns in Libraries.

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