An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Eden > Her book, Portraits of the Princes and People of India , was published in 1844. It contained 24 lithographs that were drawn from her sketches of important Indian subjects such as Dost Mahomed Khan and Ranjit Singh. https://www.rct.uk/collection/1070252/portraits-of-the-princ... https://archive.org/details/Eden30538

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Besides the sketches, she has written extensively about Indian rulers at the time (e.g. Ranjit Singh). If you found this interesting, you would love the Empire Podcast... I believe they talk about Emily in the episode on Afghanistan ( https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/79-invading-afghanista... ); Dalrymple's book on the subject (Return of a King, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_a_King ) is also a masterfully well researched, delightful read.

ks2048

Amazing work and historical artifacts. Something about this era - I have an interest in Frederick Catherwood and his work at basically the same time in mesoamerica (although he focused more on ruins than modern people), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Catherwood