African-American artist Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872), considered one of the greatest landscape painters of America, inspired by Thomas Moore’s epic poem Lalla Rookh (1817), imagined Kashmir and painted it on canvas.
He was to paint ‘Vale of Kashmir’ a couple of times. Each time, Kashmir looked like a fantastical tropical oasis with huge fountains.
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| Vale of Kashmir, 1864 found it in ‘The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872’ by Joseph D. Ketner |
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| Vale of Kashmir, 1870 |
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