Untitled (verso, bottom)
1884
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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Raja Deen Dayal
Raja Lala Deen Dayal, famously known as Raja Deen Dayal) was an Indian photographer.
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Untitled (verso, bottom) is a 1884 by Raja Deen Dayal, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This is the back of a photograph showing a handwritten note and a faint stamp. The paper is yellowed, with creases and smudges from age. It’s part of an album made for a British official in India in the 1880s—basically a souvenir of his time there. The stamp might be from the studio that printed it, or from someone who owned it later. Small marks like these tell stories we don’t always see in the front images. To see more photos from this album, look up The Cleveland Museum of Art.
These photographs are part of an album, now disassembled, of around 105 photographs taken in India between 1885 and summer 1887 that provide glimpses into the lives of the British colonial elite and royal and upper-class Indians. The museum holds another group of 37 pictures from this album (2016.266), which was probably commissioned by a British civil servant visiting or working in India around 1888 as a personal souvenir of his experiences there.
Raja Deen Dayal is regarded now, and was considered during his lifetime, to be India’s most important 19th-century photographer.
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Raja Lala Deen Dayal, famously known as Raja Deen Dayal) was an Indian photographer.
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