The Golden Temple Amritsar
Charles W. Bartlett
British, 1860 - 1940
Color woodblock print
Image: 9 15/16 x 15 1/8 in. (25.2 x 38.4 cm) Sheet: 10 15/16 x 16 in. (27.8 x 40.6 cm)
Gift of Anna Rice Cooke, 1929 (12722) Conservation treatment supported by David Dolan in honor of Charles W. Bartlett and his family.
Of the many prints, sketches, and one oil painting in the Academy's collection that Bartlett did of Amritsar, this is the only one that actually shows its most famous monument, the Harmandir Sahib, or Golden Temple. However, Bartlett characteristically placed the monument in the background behind a more prominent foreground emphasizing the people in the scene as the primary subject. (2009)