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Description: | Oil on panel. Bhopal is the capital of the north Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Bhopal became a British protectorate (governed by an Indian ruler under indirect British rule) in 1818. From 1819 to 1926 it was ruled by four generations of Begums (female Muslim rulers). Shahjahan Begum (ruled 1844-60 and 1868-1901), who was in power when artist George Howard visited the city, was responsible for building the impressive, although unfinished, Taj-ul-Masjid mosque. More recently, the university was established in 1970 and in 1984, Bhopal was the scene of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters when deadly gases escaped from a pesticide plant, killing over 2,000 people.
A watercolour version of this scene is in the collection at Castle Howard, in north Yorkshire, a former home of the artist and one of the seats of the Earls of Carlisle. | Subjects: | child topography tree Pre-Raphaelites woman Indian landscape C19th townscape/cityscape man river | Temporal: | 1890s; 1890/1899 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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