Forgotten Images

From the late 19th century, postcards became a popular - even fashionable - form of communication. Traditional letter writing, while it had the advantage of confidentiality, gradually gave way to the shorter, pithy message which could be scribbled on a postcard.

Studies In Majesty

This volume is a tribute to the under-appreciated talent of the Hungarian master artist August Schoefft. His 19th century compatriot and host in the Punjab Dr. Martin Honigberger said of him: ‘He has a high reputation all over the peninsula and it gives great credit to our own country to give such men to the world’.

IMPERIAL CURIOSITY

This book surveys the work done by European artists who visited the Punjab, Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa between 1845 and 1906, and the royal visits by three British Heirs apparent between 1875 and 1906.

Sketches from a Howdah

Charlotte, Lady Canning, the modest and self-effacing consort of the 1st Viceroy Lord Canning, was much more than just a dutiful wife. She was a very gifted water colourist and a shrewd observer of the social and political scene of India in the late 1850s. Her observations were always acute and sympathetic, especially so in the wake of the tragic events of 1857