Viva Brighton Issue #52 June 2017

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BITS AND BOBS ............................... © Royal Pavilion Brighton ....18....
BITS AND BOBS ............................... SECRETS OF THE ROYAL PAVILION: SHAMPOOING SURGEON TO THE KING This month sees the opening of Jane Austen by the Sea, a display in the Royal Pavilion that will explore the great novelist’s relationship with the seaside, sea-bathing and the Prince Regent. Print culture in every form was hugely important in Austen’s time and, of course, to her personally. We have therefore included first editions of her books, early guidebooks of ‘watering places’, ephemera from early libraries, Regency magazines with colourful fashion plates, and hilarious Georgian caricatures and political cartoons. Among the exhibits is a print I particularly like (left): an image of a man of Indian origin, dressed in what appears to be Indian clothing, standing against an imagined landscape. The building is reminiscent of both the Royal Pavilion and the images created by Thomas and William Daniell, two artists who had spent years in India in the 1780s and 90s, and subsequently painted an impression of India for a Western audience keen to see pictures of the unfamiliar East. The man in the print is Sake Deen Mahomed, one of the best-known early entrepreneurial Asian immigrants to Britain. He was born in 1759 in Patna, north-eastern India, joined the Native Infantry of the East India Company, and had a successful military career. In 1784 he moved to Ireland, where he studied English and fell in love with an Irish woman whom he later married. In 1794 he published a book in English about his travels and moved to London with his family in 1807. There he opened a Hindoostane Coffee House, and introduced Indian cuisine to the English palate, before becoming a professional ‘shampooer’ in Brighton, where he opened Mahomed’s Baths near the seafront in 1812. His business was described in advertisements as ‘The Indian Medicated Vapour Bath, a cure to many diseases and giving full relief when everything fails; particularly Rheumatic and paralytic, gout, stiff joints, old sprains, lame legs, aches and pains in the joints’. He eventually became ‘shampooing surgeon’ to George IV and William IV. The print, a lithograph by Thomas Mann Baynes printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, is one of many images of the illustrious Sake Deen Mahomed. It is a testament to Georgian society’s continued fascination with the East in general, and respect for Mahomed in particular. The dress he is wearing in this picture was a cultural hybrid, probably invented by Mahomed himself and worn at court, with the intention of looking both exotic and modern, combining Eastern and Western features. Under the thigh-length, long-sleeved silk coat in the style of Indian court dress, for example, he wears a pair of tailored long breeches that are in fact a very early pair of trousers. Astonishingly, Mahomed’s extraordinary outfit survives in our collection, and we will display it alongside the print in the Jane Austen exhibition. A large portrait of Mahomed, in Western dress, can be seen in the history galleries of Brighton Museum. Alexandra Loske, Curator, Royal Pavilion Archives Jane Austen by the Sea opens at the Pavilion on 17th June. brightonmuseums.org.uk ....19....
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