Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.45

c7.45

The owners of these pretentious palaces did not find in them any sense of superior comfort or convenience, for they seldom occupied more than a corner of them ; and the bad copies or counterfeits of European pictures, palmed off as originals by unscrupulous dealers, were not considered or treated as works of art, but only as a necessary part of the quasi-European upholstery.