A common starter task for schoolchildren in India is to draw a ‘scenery’. The morning sun peeking from behind a mountain-top, a stream gushing down, a few man-made structures. The tradition this borrows from is the English ‘picturesque’, the foundational influence of which is visible in English landscape paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries. The aesthetics and the politics of the picturesque are the focus of an exhibition at Delhi’s DAG—The Indian Picturesque: Landscape Painting 1800-1850. Curated by Giles Tillotson, it brings together British and Indian landscape paintings from the first half of the 19th century.
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