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Colesworthy Grant's portraits of colonial society in India : lithography, liberalism, and the global making of middle‐class culture, c. 1833–57
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Young, Tom (2022) Colesworthy Grant's portraits of colonial society in India : lithography, liberalism, and the global making of middle‐class culture, c. 1833–57. Art History, 45 (4). pp. 712-743. doi:10.1111/1467-8365.12682 ISSN 0141-6790.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12682
Abstract
This essay explores how lithographic printing connected colonial society in India to global developments in the making of middle‐class culture. It focuses on two print portrait series that the artist Colesworthy Grant (1813–80) released in illustrated periodicals: Lithographic Sketches of the Public Characters of Calcutta; and A Series of Miscellaneous Rough Sketches of Oriental Heads. The former defined white society in Bengal according to a masculine, agentic image of the public individual, whereas the latter engaged ambiguously with ideas about the colonial literary sphere and the nature of civic participation in order to distinguish so‐called Anglicized individuals from a taxonomic ordering of South Asian society. The article contextualizes these portraits in relation to the liberal social reforms that reshaped the East India Company's rule in the period 1833–57, arguing that lithographic periodical illustration worked to reconfigure the character and racial boundaries of the Company's increasingly middle‐class regime.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NE Print media |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History of Art | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Art and the middle class -- India, Imperialism -- History -- India, Lithography -- History -- 19th century, Liberalism -- History -- 19th century, Artists -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Art History | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0141-6790 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 45 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 712-743 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8365.12682 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 May 2023 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 May 2023 | ||||||||
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