Robert Hotz Esquire and Bulldog
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 13.2 × 19.8 cm · paper: 13.2 × 19.8 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
2016.266.12
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About this artwork
Robert Hotz (1844–1923), a professional photographer with studios in Calcutta and Shimla, poses with his bulldog, a breed that had symbolized England since the 1700s. Many British people came with or imported dogs to India. The British relied on their Indian servants to walk, feed, and care for the animals. Before the British arrived, Indian people rarely kept dogs as pets. Historically, in Indian art, dogs and jackals were associated with cremation grounds and were not folded into scenes of dom...