Bengal Troops on the Line of March
Dr Mary Knights
Thursday 6 November, 10.30am
Central Gallery, TMAG
Sifting through TMAG’s art collection, Senior Curator of Art Mary Knights was intrigued by a tightly rolled paper scroll that seemed out of place amid prints and drawings relating to colonial Tasmania. Unfurled, the eight-metre long panorama depicted ‘Bengal Troops on the Line of March’. Printed in London in 1835, it was based on a sketch by Captain William Andrew Ludlow (1803–1853) who had been attached to the Twelfth Regiment Bengal Native Infantry.
In this talk Mary will discuss Ludlow’s panorama along with artwork by Augustus Princep (1803–1830), best known for the book The Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen’s Land. Based on his letters, it was edited by his wife and published posthumously in London in 1833.
This is a FREE event and you are welcome to bring non-member friends.
