Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Willoughby Wallace Hooper Photograph of Grasscutters in India

Summary

Collection ID:
FSA.A1998.04
Creators:
Hooper, Willoughby Wallace, 1837-1912
Dates:
circa 1870-1904
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
1 Print
albumen
image 19 x 31 cm., mounted 40 x 51 cm.
Repository:
Container:
1

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one item: Albumen print by Col. Willoughby Wallace Hooper, depicting a family of grass cutters in Indian, circa 1870s.

Arrangement

Arrangement
Oversized file folder in one flat box.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Hooper was an English army officer who spent over 40 years in India. Early in his career, he became known for being an avid and accomplished amateur photographer. As a result, in 1862 Hooper was transferred to the 4th Cavalry where he worked almost exclusively on acquiring portraits of the people of Central India. These portraits were undertaken as part of the India Office's efforts to assemble a vast database of visual information and descriptive texts on the complex society of colonial India. This database would eventually be published as a monumental eight-volume catalog entitled "The People of India: a Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan." Hooper was also known for his photographs of the Madras Famine of 1876-1878 and the Third Burmese War.

Administration

Custodial History
Purchase, 1998.

Digital Content


Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Preferred Citation
Willoughby Wallace Hooper Photograph of Grasscutters in India, FSA.A1998.04. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
FSA A1998.04


Keywords

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