1886
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Treacher and Co.'s Shop in the Fort, Bombay is a 1886 by Raja Deen Dayal, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a store in Bombay, with many products on display. The store, Treacher and Co., was a place where English people in India could buy things they were used to from back home. It sold a wide range of goods, from everyday items to luxury goods. You can learn more about the photographer who took this picture by looking up Raja Deen Dayal.
The English in India approximated life back home instead of adopting local ways. This image, probably one of Deen Dayal’s stock photographs, proved to those back in England that the comforts of home were readily available in India. Treacher’s, a multistory emporium in Bombay, offered a plethora of products ranging from drugs, wine, and electromedical instruments to silver tea sets and rocking horses. Many goods were imported, but some local craftsmen had mastered traditional European forms for objects including furniture and silver.
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Raja Lala Deen Dayal, famously known as Raja Deen Dayal) was an Indian photographer.
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