Glass Lantern Slides of Kashmir from 1890s. Personal collection.
Music: Wanvun from “Vitasta”, opera by Dina Nath Nadim.
Music: Wanvun from “Vitasta”, opera by Dina Nath Nadim.
Lake by G. Strahan, 1894
Shared by Beth Watson via email. She writes, “A painting by G. Strahan. It was given to my Great Grandfather Rev.William Morrison in 1898. The painting is of Sonear Nag Lake- Kashmir.”
Colonel Geoffrey Strahan (1839-1916 was Deputy Surveyor General, Trigonometrical Branch. Although there is a spring named Sonar Nag in Kashmir (Shall Mohallah at Waripora, Pehlipora, Shopian), this looks like famous Sheshnag Lake.
Strahan painted a bunch of Kashmir painting about 1894, some of them were published in the book ‘The Charm of Kashmir’ (1920) by V.C. Scott O’connor.
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Kashpex – 79
One more postcard that I never intend to post. From personal collection.
Valley of flowers.
A post card published for Kashmir Philatelic Exhibition 1979, Srinagar.
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Kashmir Envelope
From personal collection
A beautifully painted envelope (undated) filled with ‘Kashmir Scenes’
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Pandit Woman Postal Stamp from Austria
From personal collection
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| ‘Kashmir Woman’ Made in Austria |
Weird world. Back then someone in Austria had even made a postal stamp out of the photograph of a Pandit woman profiled by Fred Bremner. In 1921, the image was mislabelled as that of a ‘Boatwoman’ by National Geographic.
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Previously on this image the:
Bhattni/Haenz’bai by Fred Bremner, 1900
Dance and Cabaret, 1944
A collection of photographs, receipts and postcards belonging to an anonymous British soldier who visited Kashmir in around 1944 during World War 2.
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Pir Panchal in Autumn by Dina Nath Walli
From my personal collection. Something that hangs on my wall now…
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| Pir Panchal in Autumn Dina Nath Walli (1908-2006) Badiyar Bala, Srinagar Date of Creation: 1950-1969 |
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Kashmir postcard from Russia, 1958
From personal collection
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Previously:
Kashmir by V.V. Vereshchagin, 1885
Kashmiri Opera Performers, tracing 1955/2013
Kashmir in ‘L’espace bleu entre les nuages’ by Cosey, 1978
From personal collection
To get the art and feel of the place right, Cosey actually travelled to Kashmir and seems to have soaked it all in quite well. The issue also carried a brief piece by Cosey about his experience in Kashmir (along with some photographs by Paquita Cosandey, who usually did script and design for him).
Kashmir in Jonathan series ‘L’espace bleu entre les nuages‘ (The blue space between the clouds) by swiss artist Cosey (Bernard Cosandey) for Tintin Magazine No.147, July 4, 1978.
The plot revolves around sale of rare European paintings meant to fund a militant movement run from Srinagar. The movement in this case happens to be a veiled reference to ‘Free Tibet’ movement whose main agents have taken refuge in Kashmir.
Much like the old European travellogues, Srinagar here is presented as the springboard to the roof of the world. The comic comes from a time when comics were art, this collection apparently is supposed to be read with the background score of Beethoven (Concerto No. 3 in C minor op. 37) and Chopin (Concerto No. 2 in F minor op. 21).
To get the art and feel of the place right, Cosey actually travelled to Kashmir and seems to have soaked it all in quite well. The issue also carried a brief piece by Cosey about his experience in Kashmir (along with some photographs by Paquita Cosandey, who usually did script and design for him).
Tintin Magazine was meant to be a space where new and future comic works by various artists could be showcased. ‘L’espace bleu entre les nuages’ as a complete work came out later in 1980.
At that time the west seemed to be much taken by Tibet, in this particular issue of the magazine, I would find two more comics themed around Tibet.
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Previously:
Kashmir in Indian Comics
Kashmir in The Wide World, 1948
Continuing with theme of Kashmir in European style…
From my personal collection, Kashmir on the cover of July 1948 issue of a London based magazine called The Wide World.
