Description
These images show the artists’ initial planning sketches, created while researching the history of the famine, and their work-in-progress as they developed the storyline and made decisions about framing the Chhiattor narrative within their imagined arguments with William Hunter. The images also show the gradual development of an 8-feet long pullout illustration of migration during the famine, created by Argha Manna.
Creator
Manna, Argha
Mitra, Debkumar
Source
William Hunter, The Annals of Rural Bengal (New York: 1868), chapters 2 and 5, appendices A and B.
Hunter, Famine Aspects of Bengal Districts, p.26 (cost of 1770 famine).
John Shore, "Still fresh in memory's eye the scene I view", in Hunter, Annals, p.28, and Memoir of the Life and Correspondence of John Lord Teignmouth, by his Son (London, 1843), Vol. i. pp. 25, 26.
Anonymous, "Nad nadi khal bil shob shukailo", in Suprasanna Bandopadhyay (ed), Itihasashrito Bangla Kobita, 1751-1855 (Calcutta: 1954). Famine and Dearth in India and Britain, 1550-1800.
The Famine and Dearth in India and Britain, 1550-1800 database.
Publisher
University of Exeter
Date
2019-12
Contributor
Dutta, Shrutakirti
Gupta, Abhijit
Holding, Richard
Mukherjee, Ayesha
Rights
CC BY-NC
Format
Ink and watercolour on cartridge paper
Type
Making of graphic narrative
Coverage
Bengal, India; 1769-70
Original Format
Painting
Physical Dimensions
29.7 cm x 21 cm