FAH392H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hookah, Stippling, Blackboard
Document Summary
Fraser album: brothers william and james fraser, william was an official based in delhi, far from calcutta hybrid culture of mixed families continues there due to distance from eic in calcutta. James instructed mughal artists in the creation of each painting: unsatisfied with his own attempts at representing the people, hired artist and instructed him based on his examples; led to the european look of the piece. Joint effort; james idea and composition done by indian artist: a few different artists, none definitively known, miniaturist attention to detail; facial and hair, like the imperial portrait of akbar. Ii: british was at war with nepal; hence several paintings of recruits in album. William knew these people personally: all with individual faces, scenes from his actual professional and domestic life. Inscriptions detailing their name, where they lived, family, etc. with legend of people.
