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Adapting the eye: An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 at the Yale Center for British Art

NEW HAVEN, CT.- Organized to complement the Center’s major fall exhibition on Johan Zoffany, who spent six productive years in India, Adapting the Eye: An Archive of the British in India, 1770–1830 will explore the complex and multifaceted networks of British and Indian professional and amateur artists, patrons, and scholars in British India in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and their drive to create and organize knowledge for both aesthetic and political purposes. Selected from the Center’s rich holdings, and augmented with key loans from Tate Britain, the British Library, and the Yale University Art Gallery, the exhibition will include a diverse range of objects from both high art and popular culture–many of which are being exhibited for the fi rst time–including albums, scrapbooks, prints, paintings, miniatures, and sculpture, demonstrating how collecting practices and