Filth, ruin, and the colonial picturesque : James Baillie Fraser's representations of Calcutta and the Black Hole monument

In the early nineteenth century, British consumers increasingly demanded representations of foreign areas newly opened up by British imperial expansion. This thesis considers a series of twenty-four aquatints by British artist James Baillie Fraser, published between 1824 and 1826 as Views of Calcut...

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Main Author: Sciampacone, Amanda Christina Hui
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28032