Program

Beyond Britain: “A Woman Holding a Hookah at Faizabad, India”

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Ellen Smith, Residential Fellow at the YCBA, explores how Tilly Kettle sought to represent India in the eighteenth century.

About this program

Explore how artist Tilly Kettle sought to represent India in the eighteenth century through the alluring image of the “dancing girl.” In a classic portrayal of the “oriental” east, Kettle's work captures the cultural infusions that marked early East India Company rule.

About Ellen Smith

Ellen Smith is a Visiting Research Fellow at the YCBA and Senior Research Associate, Department of History, at the University of Bristol. A historian of modern Britain and its empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, her research focuses on the social, economic, and cultural experiences of British, Anglo-Indian (mixed European and Asian descent), and South Asian families in the imperial era.

About “Beyond Britain”

Join us in the galleries for this 30-minute lunchtime talk on a single artwork that highlights the global histories in our collection.

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