Badminton Party at Mashobra, Shimla
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 19.9 × 27.1 cm · paper: 19.9 × 27.1 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
2016.266.9
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About this artwork
This scene is from one of many lavish entertainments hosted by caterer, restaurateur, and hotelier Federico Peliti (Italian, 1844–1914) at his forested country estate outside Simla. In the photograph, Peliti is on horseback and his wife Judith on the swing.. Swings have a long history as items of leisurely pleasure in Europe and India. Badminton, which originated in England in 1873, was popular in India. Deen Dayal may have been invited to document this gathering because he and Peliti, an amateu...