India, April 4 -- The Indian Picturesque: Landscape Painting 1800-1850 is a collection of the paintings featured in the exhibition of the same name at DAG, Delhi, until May 2. The exhibition and the volume bring together, for the first time, British and Indian landscape paintings from the early 19th century, to examine their artistic interconnections and shared visual vocabulary. In doing this, the exhibition offers a nuanced exploration and understanding of artistic exchange, aesthetic transformation and the enduring appeal of picturesque imagery shaped by history and memory. Included are large-format aquatints created by Henry Salt and James Baillie Fraser; the intimate rural landscapes of George Chinnery; and illustrated travelogues and elements of print culture that shaped ideas of India in the public imagination, both on the subcontinent and beyond....