Colonial India Between Empires (1700-1900)

Introduction

This site highlights items in Northwestern's Special Collections that relate to Colonial India from 1700 to 1900.

Components

• Maps
• Timeline
• Painting the Orient
• Displaying Empire
• Daniells Map Project
  Buffet Undergraduate Research Fellow Project, 2024-25
• Scientific Studies
  Technical and scientific analysis conducted on the works
• Northwestern's Special Collections
  • Donald K. Adams and Lawrence D. Stewart Collection of Prints
  • Indian Paintings on Mica
  • Ogilby Album
• Bibliography
• Index

Related Works and Exhibits

• Ogilby Album, Gleeson Library Digital Collections, University of San Francisco
• A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings c. 1790-1835, DAG, India
• Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850, Yale Center for British Art
• Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707-1857, Asia Society, New York