[Women Grinding Paint, Calcutta], ca. 1845, Daguerreotype, Image: 9.4 x 14.4 cm (3 11/16 x 5 11/16 in.), Photographs, Unknown, With the invention of photography, the eighteenth-century British passion for recording exotic flora and fauna and for making ethnological studies of the peoples in India was given new impetus. The earliest photography on the continent dates from 1840 in Calcutta, the political center of British India
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Women Grinding Paint, Calcutta, ca, 1845, Daguerreotype, Image, 9.4 x 14.4 cm, 3 11/16 5 11/16, Photographs, Unknown, invention, photography, eighteenth-century British passion, recording exotic, flora, fauna, ethnological studies, peoples, India, given new, impetus, earliest photography, continent dates, 1840, political center, British India
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