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Tinted India. Day & Son and the Photolithographs in “Tent Life in Tigerland”
In his 1888 collection of stories bearing the somewhat excessive title „Tent Life in Tigerland. Being Sporting Reminiscences of a Pioneer Planter in an Indian Frontier District“, we find former Australian Minister of Education James Inglis looking back to an adventurous stretch of his life as an indigo planter in the mangrove forests of Northern […]
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The Privatized Subcontinent. On John Corbet Anderson and C.R. Francis:”Sketches Of Native Life In India” (1848)
Among the innumerable illustrated travelogues about India directed to a primarily British audience in the18th and 19th centuries, „Sketches of Native Life in India,“ a book that was published in London in 1848,has gained a special reputation for its exceptional visual impressiveness and its idiosyncratic qualities.Today, even single illustrated sheets from this work are almost […]
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The scalp in the grid. Menzel and the Development of the Illustrated Press
The critical opinion reviewers had of 19th-century German press drawings and illustration art was quite sobering in its overall tenor and can easily be reduced to: There’s Menzel, and that’s just about all. Indeed, it took until the late 1880s for the contours of draughtsmen with a profile of their own to be noticed… PDF: […]