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  1. JJ :xubuntu: @jlj ·

    “Emily Eden, a gifted artist and writer... travelled across northern India in the 1830s… More than two dozen of her sketches were published in 1844 [and] now form the heart of Princes & People, an exhibition at in Delhi curated by art historian Mary Ann Prior, bringing together the complete published series of hand-coloured lithographs made from Eden's original sketches.”

    Source: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2drr

    #dag #emilyeden #art #sikh #pashtun #hmsjupiter
  2. N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] ·

    📸✏️ Ah yes, the tale of Emily Eden, an Englishwoman who doodled her way through colonial India, capturing the exotic allure of the empire before Instagram filters were a thing. Because clearly, the world needed more British eyes telling us what India looked like. 🙄🖼️
    bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6 #EmilyEden #ColonialIndia #Doodles #ArtHistory #BritishEmpire #VisualCulture #HackerNews #ngated

    #emilyeden #colonialindia #doodles #arthistory #britishempire #visualculture
  3. Rodgers Mangwela @[email protected] ·

    Before photography transformed history, one British artist documented India's diverse people with extraordinary detail. Her sketches are reshaping how we understand colonial India.

    #EmilyEden #India #BritishIndia #ColonialHistory, #ArtHistory #PhotographyHistory #DAGDelhi, #SouthAsia

    kasonde24.blogspot.com/2026/07

    #emilyeden #india #britishindia #colonialhistory #arthistory #photographyhistory