Treacher and Co.'s Shop in the Fort, Bombay (1886): Art, History and Details

Treacher and Co.'s Shop in the Fort, Bombay (1886) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844–1905).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The English in India approximated life back home instead of adopting local ways. This image, probably one of Deen Dayal’s stock photographs, proved to those back in England that the comforts of home were readily available in India. Treacher’s, a multistory emporium in Bombay, offered a plethora of products ranging from drugs, wine, and electromedical instruments to silver tea sets and rocking horses. Many goods were imported, but some local craftsmen had mastered traditional European forms for objects including furniture and silver.

Object facts

• Title: Treacher and Co.'s Shop in the Fort, Bombay
• Date: 1886
• Creator attribution: Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844–1905)
• Culture: India
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print
• Dimensions: Image: 19.6 x 26.3 cm (7 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.); Paper: 19.6 x 26.3 cm (7 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
• Collection: PH - Misc. 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2016.266.33

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

View the collection record

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