Concert. Cawnpoor
1845
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1845
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Concert. Cawnpoor is a 1845 by Robert Captain Smith, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Concert. Cawnpoor is a drawing by Robert Captain Smith. It's from around 1845. The artist was a military man who traveled extensively. He served in Italy, Sicily, and the USA, and was even wounded in New Orleans. He also visited India, where this drawing was likely made. To learn more about the style of this period, look up the movement: Romanticism.
The artwork *Concert. Cawnpoor* by Captain Robert Smith depicts a group of five musicians performing at a nautch, or social gathering, in Kanpur (Cawnpore) during the early 19th century. Created as part of Smith’s unpublished *Pictorial Journal of Travels in Hindustan*, the piece reflects his observations as an amateur artist and British officer stationed in India. The drawing is one of 65 detached and mounted illustrations in pencil from the journal, which documents his travels from 1828 to 1833. The work was completed in 1845 and later acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1915.
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Robert Captain Smith (1792–1882) was an artist, born in Dublin.
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