NON-EXPORTABLE
TITLE: Memorials of the Jepore Exhibition
VOLUME: 1: Industrial Art
AUTHOR:
PUBLISHER: Thomas H. Hendley
PLACE: Jaipur
YEAR: 1883
BINDING:
NO.OF PAGES: pp. x including 1 color chromolithograph frontispiece "Autotype Portrait of H.H.Maharaja Siwai Madho Singh, of Jepore" + 1 color chromolithograph title page for "Design for book-binding, by an artist in the employ of H.H.The Maharaja of Ulwar". Also there are 75 pages including 39 color chromolithographs, further 44 pages including 5 color chromolithographs.
SIZE:
Height: 37.5 cm
Width: 28.4 cm
Depth: 2.8 cm
The Jeypore Exhibition of 1883 is regarded as among the most important industrial exhibitions of the 19th century, wherespecimens of the best art work of India were curated. A permanent "memorial" of the exhibition was produced as a four-part set of illustrated volumes, authored by Hendley and commissioned by the visionary Maharaja of Jaipur. The first volume containes a number of chromolithographs and a general description of the plates in the first three books of the set. The exhibits detailed in the book include armour, jewellery, carpets, metal, stone and wood inlay work, hookahs, ivory carving and inlay, lacquer ware, pottery, native musical instruments, manuscripts and paintings.
T.H. Hendley, a British surgeon posted in the princely state of Jaipur, is credited with organising the Jeypore Exhibition. He was also the curator of Jaipur's landmark, the Albert Hall Museum.
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