Camera obscura and the last Mughal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14693580 |
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| Authors | Brij Bhushan Sharma (0000-0002-8930-8102, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-137 |
| Publication date | 1989-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Photography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-7298 • E-ISSN: 2150-7295 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03087298.1989.10442180 |
| OpenAlex | W2313078540 |
| Language | EN |
It was a Tuesday afternoon, 1 January, 1850; Helen Mackenzie was out sketching in the Red Fort of Delhi. To aid her efforts she was using a camera obscura. She wanted to make ‘a sketch in the camera of the Dewan-i-Khas, where the peacock throne used to stand’. For that she really needed a chair, but since chairs were not allowed within the court, a message was sent to the king, to request a special dispensation. The king's response was that she ‘might have a stool but not a chair, and accordingly sent [her] a very rude little bench’.{su1}
Art · Art history · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Sketch · Throne · Visual arts · Computer Science · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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