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A Picture of Health: The Dilemma of Gender and Status in the Iconography of Empire, India c. 1805

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2001

Extract

This article provides a commentary on a painting entitled Dancing Girls, Madras, c. 1805, by the Irish artist Thomas Hickey shown in an exhibition of privately owned works from East Anglia at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 18 May-1 August 1999, entitled, ‘In the Public Eye’ (Catalogue No. 95) fig. 1.

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Research Article
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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