1894
[1]Indu Prakash, March 6, 1894 critique of colonial bureaucracy, nationalist sentiment
Dhundiraj wins award in competition in Ahmedabad as best backdrop painter. Patwardhan Vinayakrao's younger brother Ramachandra also joins in this magic lantern enterprise. They start using three magic lanterns[], two for showing the action and one for the background. The lenses of the Kharolika were of foreign make. The show used to start with the entry of the Sutradhar and two singer.
Raja Ravi Varma starts his famed lithographic press to mass-print pictures of popular gods and goddesses(life awakening of the still motif).
One of his friends, Mahim, often went to the races. He had a large pair of binoculars. Maybe that would help? A pair of binoculars were needed because the room was at some distance. The house Mr. Chowdhury lived in was not exactly by the side of the road. There was an extension of the garden beyond the compound wall and a certain portion of the terrace had to be crossed to get to the room on the second floor.
Ravi Varma Fine Art Lithographic Press opens in Girgaum, Bombay. There is imported machinery and also two German artists are to work with the press to help transfer Varma's drawings to lithographs. first high speed steam driven press which could produce 1000 oleographs per shift, installed at Ravi Varma press.
Emile Reynaud
