The Indian Picturesque

The Indian Picturesque: Landscape Painting 1800–1850 is a pioneering exhibition that brings together, for the first time, British and Indian landscape paintings from the early nineteenth century to examine their artistic interconnections and shared visual vocabulary.  

Tracing the evolution of the picturesque aesthetic in India, the exhibition focuses on the generation of British and Indian artists active in the early nineteenth century — those who followed in the footsteps of pioneering landscape painters such as William Hodges and Thomas and William Daniell charting the continued development of the picturesque idiom through painting, printmaking and travel imagery, and its entanglement with imperial expansion and territorial imagination. 

Through a carefully curated selection of paintings, prints, drawings and decorative arts, the exhibition invites audiences to reconsider the visual construction of landscape and modernity in India, offering a nuanced understanding of artistic exchange and aesthetic transformation. 

On view at DAG Delhi through 2 May 2026.  

Monday – Saturday, 11:00 am to 7:00 pm. 

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