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[Kitchen and Stables of Government House, Calcutta], India

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of British India, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.

With the invention of photography, the eighteenth-century British passion for recording exotic lands and studies of the peoples in India was given new impetus. The earliest photography on the continent dates from 1840 in Calcutta, the political center of British India. The technology for photography arrived in India quickly became popular among the local rulers-many of whom employed photographers at their courts-as well as the British who had come to make their fortunes in the colony. For both populations, the new medium replaced painting as the method for recording the local landscape, architecture, people, and important events.

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john constantine stanley albumen silver prints kitchen stables government house government house calcutta prints kolkata west bengal 19th century high resolution ultra high resolution albumen prints early photography metropolitan museum of art indian art
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1858 - 1861
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Colonial India

Early photography in colonial India
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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http://www.metmuseum.org/
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john constantine stanley albumen silver prints kitchen stables government house government house calcutta prints kolkata west bengal 19th century high resolution ultra high resolution albumen prints early photography metropolitan museum of art indian art