1885
D.G. Phalke passes Matric from Maratha High School, Bombay.
Eastman invents and markets roll holder cameras for 48 exposures.
In the same city, Dhurander, a young Hindu, has walked in mesmerised, to Terry's School- J.J. School of Art.
An early student, Mahadev V.Dhurandhar, describes the first day at the school. After admission, the student came to the drawing class carrying a drawing board, a shading box and drawing paper. He was to be taught the importance of tones with simple plaster cubes, cylinders and spheres which were placed against a white screen. The learner began with freehand drawings, which was subsequently shaded by him to bring out the different tones of three aspects of natural light:incidental, reflected and diffused. The exercise took several days to complete. With a written approval of the Vice- Principal that he has mastered simple tones, he proceeded to higher stages, namely, time drawing or shading of foliage and antique casts.
Dhurandhar before the front hall of the school, with its statues
Standing in front of the huge Plaster-of-Paris statues of the Venus de' Medici, Apollo Belvedere, Apollo Saurochthonos and The Discobolos I felt as if in a dream...I went round and round the statues and yet I was not sated... Even out on the street, I felt like one possessed and kept seeing them appear before me
Shilpa Pushpanjali an art journal and Balak, a children's magazine, started in Bengal. Both use lithograph prints as illustrations.
Ravi Varma and Raja Varma travel to Mysore, and spend time painting different members of the Royal Family. Apart from remuneration, Ravi Varma is also gifted two elephants.
