Ashmolean Museum

Colonial Views of India: Photographs by Eugene Clutternbuck Impey

This small free exhibition is the first to focus on photographs and negatives in the Ashmolean, and features previously unseen photographs of India by Colonel Eugene Clutterbuck Impey (1830-1904). A member of the East India Company, Impey arrived in India in 1851 and took part in military actions during the Indian Uprising of 1857. After the British Crown took control in 1858 following the Uprising, he worked as a political agent until returning to Britain in 1878. The Impey collection includes 247 glass negatives preserved at the Ashmolean.

Location: Gallery 29 (Level 1), Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Beaumont Street, OX1 2PH

Further details on the show and accompanying publication can be found here: https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/colonial-views-of-india-impey-photographs