Studio: international art (28.1903)

Studio- Talk

EXHIBITION BUILDINGS, DELHI

ordinary European and American international
exhibitions, but it was a compendium or epitome
of all the indigenous arts of India, exemplified
by the best selected specimens, prepared, as far
as time and other exigencies permitted, for this
special occasion. A loan collection of current
works, covering the same ground as that included
within the scope of the modern collection, was
also brought together, to enable a comparative
estimate to be made between the skill of the
craftsman of to-day and that of his ancestors, and
to determine whether he is-, as has been asserted,
their degenerate, albeit acquisitive descendant.

The exhibits were obtained from the treasure
houses of native princes, the collections of private
individuals and from public treasuries, and they
included many of the most famous works of
past ages. The only other section was that of
jewellery. It was separately housed in a court
by itself for three reasons; firstly, on account
of its intrinsic interest; secondly, because it is
the most widely praised of the higher artistic
crafts in India, and thirdly, on account of the
great responsibility which would have been thrown
upon those in charge of the exhibition, were articles
of small size but of enormous value included
among the general exhibits.

To contain the collections, the bringing together
of which was the subject of so much fore-
thought and labour, a graceful building in Hindo-

FROM A TENCIL DRAWING

Saracenic style was built upon a gentle slope
in the Kudsia Gardens, just outside the famous
Kashmir Gate. The interior of the building was

EMBROIDERY FROM DELHI

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