List of Illustrations
Fig. 1: A Section of the Rotunda, Leicester Square: The panorama panoply promoting
virtual tourism. Source: Plans and Views Perspective by Robert Mitchell (180 1).
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/11/panorama-handbills.html.
Fig. 2: A Panorama Image of Mexico: An example of the enormous popularity of foreign
landscapes enjoyed. Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum Library holdings, Blythe House
Archive and Library Reading Room, Olympia.
Fig. 3: Playbill of Chinese Sorcerer (1823): An instance of the thrill oriental subjects and
settings created on the contemporary stage. (Front). Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum
Library holdings, Blythe House Archive and Library Reading Room, Olympia.
Fig. 4: Playbill of Chinese Sorcerer (1823): An instance of the thrill oriental subjects and
settings created on the contemporary stage. (Back). Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum
Library holdings, Blythe House Archive and Library Reading Room, Olympia.
Fig. 5: Panorama of London: A view of London from the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Source: http://bibliodyssey.b1ogspot.com/2008/11/panorama-handbills.html.
Fig. 6: 'Mr. and Mrs. Andrews' (1750) by Thomas Gainsborough. Source: http://www.
wga.hu I art/g/gainsbor/02andrew.jpg.
Fig. 7: Playbill of Inchbald's A Mogul Tale (1784): A play with Indian setting and subject
immensely popular at the time. Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum holdings, Blythe
House Archive and Library Reading Room, Olympia.
Fig. 8: Playbill of Omai, 1786. Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum holdings, Blythe
House Archive and Library Reading Room, Olympia.
Fig. 9: Theatre Scene of Omai (1786) constructed by Jacques de Loutherbourg showing the
Tahitian landscape and the inside of a native hut. Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum
holdings, Blythe House Archive and Library Reading Room, Olympia.
Fig. 10: Theatre Scene of Omai (1786) constructed by Jacques de Loutherbourg showing the
Tahitian landscape and the inside of a native hut. Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum
holdings, Blythe House Archive and Library Reading Room, Olympia.
Fig. 11: Playbill of Moncrieffs Cataract of the Ganges (1823): A Catalogue of all the
oriental attractions viewable on stage. (Front). Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum
holdings, Blythe House Archive and Library Reading Room, Olympia.
Fig. 12: Playbill of Moncrieffs Cataract of the Ganges (1823): A Catalogue of all the
oriental attractionsw viewable on__ stage. (Back). Courtesy Victoria -and Albert Museum
holdings, Blythe House Archive and Library Reading Room~ Olympia. ·
Fig. 13: Playbill of the play Relief of Lucknow: An example of oriental war spectacle
immensely popular in the 19th century. Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum holdings,
Blythe House Archive and Library Reading Room, Olympia.
Fig. 14: Panorama Image of the 'Siege of Seringapatam'. Source: http://www.english.
wisc.edu/tkelleyIN ASSR/images/8Seringapatam-DRight3 .jpg
Fig. 15: Panorama Image of Indian Landscape. Source: Hyde, Ralph. 1988. Panoramania:
The Art and Entertainment ofthe All-Embracing •View. London: Barbican Art Gallery.
Fig. 16: Panorama Image of Indian Landscape. Source: Hyde, Ralph. 1988. Panoramania:
The Art and Entertainmentofthe All-Embracing View. London: BarbicanArt Gallery.
Fig. 17: Panorama Image of 'Route of Overland Mail to India' ( 1860). Source: Hyde, Ralph.
1988. Panoramania: The Art and Entertainment of the All-Embracing View. London:
Barbican Art Gallery.
Fig. 18: Panorama Image of 'London to Hong Kong in Two Hours' (1860). Source: Hyde,
Ralph. 1988. Panoramania: The Art and Entertainment of the All-Embracing View. London:
Barbican Art Gallery.
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Fig. 19: Panorama Image of 'London to Hong Kong in Two Hours'. Source: Hyde, Ralph.
1988. Panoramania: The Art and Entertainment of the All-Embracing View. London:
Barbican Art Gallery.
Fig. 20: Panorama Image of Indian Durbar Scene by unknown native artist. Source: Hyde,
Ralph. 1988. Panoramania: The Art and Entertainment of the All-Embracing View. London:
Barbican Art Gallery.
Fig. 21: Panorama Image. of Indian Durbar Scene by unknown native artist. Source: Hyde,
Ralph. 1988. Panoramania: The Art and Entertainment of the All-Embracing View. London:
Barbican Art Gallery.
Fig. 22: Panoramalmage ofDelhiDurbar. Source: Hyde, Ralph. 1988. Panoramania: The
Art and Entertainment ofthe All-Embracing View. London: Barbican Art Gallery.
Fig. 23: Sir Charles D'Oyly: 'Paugla Pool with a view of Dacca'. Courtesy, British Library.
Fig. 24: Chinnery's Vignette of a Village Scene included on D'Oyly's Antiquities of Dacca.
Courtesy, British Library.
Fig. 25: The Kirkpatrick Children by George Chinnery. Source: http://3.bp.blogspot.com
/_jVVU3JR5iWo/SKWn1ew6AEI/AAAAAAAAAcU/NmiF76vWKzM/s320/Chinnery+Kit
ty+%2B+ William.bmp
Fig. 26: Chinnery: Western Entrance ofPort St. George. Courtesy British Library.
Fig. 27: Chinnery: Unknown. Source: http://www.banglatorrents.com/desher-chhobi/7893sketch-of-sir-charles-do:y ly.html
Fig. 28: Chinnery: Temple in Bengal. Courtesy British Library.
Fig. 29: 'Siege of Seringapatam'. Source: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/50898626/
Hulton-Archive
Fig. 30: Chinnery: A Mausoleum in Dacca. Courtesy, British Library.
Fig. 31: Chinnery: Study of Native Figures. Courtesy, British Library.
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Fig. 32: Sir Charles D'Oyly: The Great Peepul Tree at Bodh Gaya. Courtesy Victoria
Memorial Hall, Kolkata.
Fig. 33: Clarkson Stanfield. Cataract of the Ganges (Drury Lane, 1823). Chariot. Hodgson
juvenile theatre print. Source: Rosenfeld, Sybil. 1981. Georgian Scene Painters and Scene
Painting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fig. 34: John Inigo Richards. Ramah Droog (Covent Garden, 1798). Source: Rosenfeld,
Sybil. 1981. Georgian Scene Painters and Scene Painting. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Fig. 35: Clarkson Stanfield. Possible oriental scene from a pantomime. Source: Rosenfeld,
Sybil. 1981. Georgian Scene Painters and Scene Painting. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Fig. 36: Clakson Stanfiled. Back-cloth probably showing Etna or Vesuvius of an
unidentified play at Drury Lane. Source: Rosenfeld, Sybil. 1981. Georgian Scene Painters
and Scene Painting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fig. 37: John Hodgins. Captain Cook, probably for The Death of Captain Cook (Covent
Garden, 1804). Source: Rosenfeld, Sybil. 1981. Georgian Scene Painters and Scene
Painting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fig. 38: Thomas Greenwood the younger and Mildenhall. Nerstan, King ofPersia (Sadler's
Wells, 1823). Peruvian scene. Engraving. Source: Rosenfeld, Sybil. 198 L Georgian Scene
Painters and Scene Painting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fig. 39: A View of Garden Reach, Calcutta by William Hodges. Courtesy: Victoria
Memorial Hall, Calcutta.
Fig. 40: A Conversation piece by Johann Zoffany commissioned by Warren Hastings.
Courtesy: Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.
Fig. 41: Lambton's General Survey of South Peninsula. Courtesy: British Library.
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