Jason Ross sent me an article a few weeks ago written by an Indian British professor of history from Princeton, Fara Dabhoiwala, about an unsigned and unidentified portrait which had turned up for sale on the London art market in the Fall of 1928, “because of its fine rendition of an 18th-century mahogany table and chair. The beauty of this portrait, however, is that it has nothing to do with mahogany.
Not only does this portrait tell the most elementary and fundamental truth about British racial behavior, but it also expresses the most advanced and elevated form of epistemological knowledge about Art and Science that I have ever seen on this side of the Atlantic.
