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Badminton Party at Mashobra, Shimla

1887

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
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Culture
India
Medium
albumen print
Measurements
Image: 19.9 x 27.1 cm (7 13/16 x 10 11/16 in.); Paper: 19.9 x 27.1 cm (7 13/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2016.266.9
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Description

This scene is from one of many lavish entertainments hosted by caterer, restaurateur, and hotelier Federico Peliti (Italian, 1844–1914) at his forested country estate outside Simla. In the photograph, Peliti is on horseback and his wife Judith on the swing.. Swings have a long history as items of leisurely pleasure in Europe and India. Badminton, which originated in England in 1873, was popular in India. Deen Dayal may have been invited to document this gathering because he and Peliti, an amateur photographer, both belonged to the Photographic Society of Bombay.
A horizontally oriented albumen print depicts a forest clearing where a large group gathers. In the center, two badminton nets span a dirt path while figures in nineteenth-century European and South Asian clothing hold rackets. To the left, a person sits in a wheeled carriage on a grassy slope. Tall coniferous trees surround the clearing and fill the background. Throughout the scene, people stand or mill about near horses in the shaded landscape.

Badminton Party at Mashobra, Shimla

1887

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
India

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