{"title":"India: 19th-century Places \u0026 People","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis interesting group of 19th-century Indian subjects tell of Anglo-Indian relations in the period of Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree of the works are grey wash studies, at Agra and Benares, which recall the monochrome sketches of earlier artist William Hodges (1744–1797), who was one of the first British professional landscape painters to visit India, arriving in 1778. Another drawing depicts Port Said on the Suez Canal in Egypt, a significant stopover on the voyage by sea from Britain to India in the 19th century. The pictures in the group also evidence the colonial perspective, including one Company School painting by a local artist, combining Indian and western styles, and a portrait of 'Bengal Ayahs'—Indian nursemaids who served the families of Imperial officers. The portrait, initialled WB, recalls the focus on local people in the watercolours of British artist William Carpenter (1818–1899), who in the 1850s travelled extensively in India.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/collections\/AA16-JY-887.jpg?v=1742301410","url":"https:\/\/somersetandwood.com\/collections\/india-19th-century-places-people.oembed","provider":"Somerset \u0026 Wood Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}