Werk/Gegenstand/Objekt
Titel
Titel/Objekt
Hotel Mount Everest, Darjeeling
Klassifikation (GND)
Klassifikation (normiert)
Gattung:
postcards
Inschrift/Wasserzeichen
Inschrift/Wappen/Marken
Transkription
Hotel Mount Everest.
Darjeeling.
Aufbewahrung/Standort
Aufbewahrungsort/Standort (normiert)
Delhi / The Priya Paul Collection of Popular Art
Objektbeschreibung
Objektbeschreibung
On this postcard we can see a château-like building on a slight elevation with a street in front of it and some trees on its left side. (gs)
Colour information: B/W
Erhaltungszustand
good
Kommentar
##explanatory comments/crosstagging:
The hill stations were where European men could find suitable wives, and children could be nurtured in surroundings that would assure their "Europeaness." The "season" was heavily scheduled with both official and unofficial balls, picnics, fetes, children's parties, etc. The "season" would last anything from four to six months, and the colonial community would take up residence in the hills either in rented houses or hotels. It is no surprise, therefore, that many of the postcards in the Priya Paul collection are of hill station hotels, for example the Everest Hotel featured on this postcard with its "Himalayan Swiss Gothic" facade. (Shashwati Talukdar)(gs)
##explanatory comments/crosstagging:
Darjeeling's easy accessibility made it one of the most attractive hill stations in the region for residents of the Bengal Presidency. (Shashwati Talukdar)(gs)
Maß-/Formatangaben
Format/Maße/Umfang/Dauer
H 10 cm, W 15 cm, landscape
Auflage/Druckzustand
Werktitel/Werkverzeichnis
Herstellung/Entstehung
Entstehungsdatum
30.03.1918
Entstehungsdatum (normiert)
1918-03-30 - 1918-03-30
Epoche/Periode/Phase
Colonial India
Material/Technik
lithographs, cardboard
Auftrag
Publikation
Fund/Ausgrabung
Provenienz
Restaurierung
Sammlung Eingang
Ausstellung
Bearbeitung/Umgestaltung
Thema/Bildinhalt
Thema/Bildinhalt (GND)
Thema/Bildinhalt (normiert)
Darjeeling
architecture (object genre)
colonialism
Himalayas
hill stations
recheck-Medialab
Anglo-Mughal
Thematisierter Ort (GND)
Literaturangabe
Literaturangabe
Kenny, Judith 1995. "Climate, Race, and Imperial Authority: The Symbolic Landscape of the British Hill Station in India." In Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85, no. 4 (1995): 694-714. (gs)
Mathur S. 2007. "India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display". Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press; pp. 230. (gs)
Mitchell, W. J. T. 2002 "Imperial Landscape." In Landscape and Power, W. J. T Mitchell, 5-34. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (gs)
Pinney, Christpher 1995. “Moral Topophilia: The Significations of Landscape in Indian Oleographs" in The Anthropology of Landscape, ed. Erie Hirsch and Michael O'Hanlon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Talukdar, Shashwati 2010. "Picturing Mountains As Hills. Hill Station Postcards and the Tales They Tell" http://www.tasveergharindia.net/cmsdesk/essay/102/index.html, last accessed 2011-01-07. (gs)
Rechte am Objekt
Externe Bezüge
Aufnahmen/Reproduktionen
Rechtsstatus
In Copyright (InC) / Urheberrechtsschutz
Creditline
The Priya Paul Collection. Reproduced with kind permission of the collector.
Copyrighted. Copyright with the original artists and publishers.
