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Mr. Brown's Horses, Jhansi

1887

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
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Culture
India
Medium
albumen print
Measurements
Image: 18.9 x 27.6 cm (7 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.); Paper: 18.9 x 27.6 cm (7 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2016.266.24
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Imported into India in great numbers by the British, horses were used for both transportation and sports such as riding, polo, and racing. Caring for the animals fell largely to Indian servants. Captions on the photographs’ mounts specify the owners of these animals (note that Major Sparks also has a monkey and pet deer). However, none of the Indian servants is identified. Nor would they have received a copy of the photograph because of their low social status, which was far below that of Deen Dayal.
A horizontally oriented sepia albumen print depicts four horses and men with brown skin tones before a white building with a tiled roof. On the left, a dark horse is hitched to a carriage. Three horses, two dark and one light, stand with handlers in turbans across the scene. In the foreground, a seated man holds two spotted dogs. Woven shades hang from a colonnaded porch, and a single bird rests on the roof ridge.

Mr. Brown's Horses, Jhansi

1887

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
India

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