Ravi Varma, The Indian Artist

Ramananda Chatterjee, Ravi Varma, The Indian Artist, Allahabad: Indian Press, No date. But British Library copy attributes it to 1903

pp. 15, v + 15 plates including portrait of Ravi Varma, text printed within red double-rule border, all plates are monochromes in various hues and with tissue guards; bound in golden cloth with the title embossed on cover, endpapers patterned in golden flowers
11.25 x 8.75 x 0.25 in (28.5 x 22.5 x 1 cm)

The first book on an Indian artist and the only work on Ravi Varma published in his lifetime.

No author but Partha Mitter, in Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, Oxford University Press: 1994, in the bibliography on p.436, attributes it to Ramananda Chatterjee, which is plausible since he was editor of Prabasi magazine in Allahabad at this time and owned the Indian Press. Mitter dates the book to 1902.

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