Dr Andrew S. Topsfield
Position:
Senior Assistant Keeper, Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum
Faculty / College Address:
Email:
andrew.topsfield@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Indian painting of the Mughal period
- History of Indian board games
Current Projects:
- Handbook of Indian, Himalayan and South-east Asian art in the Ashmolean Museum
Recent Publications:
- Ed., Court painting in Rajasthan, Bombay, 2000.
- Court painting at Udaipur: Art under the patronage of the Maharanas of Mewar, Artibus Asiae Supplementum XLIV, Zurich, 2002.
- Ed., with R. Crill and S. Stronge, Arts of Mughal India: Studies in honour of Robert Skelton, Ahmedabad and London, 2004.
- Ed., In the realm of gods and kings: Arts of India, London, 2004.
- Ed., The art of play: Board and card games of India, Bombay, 2006.
- Paintings from Mughal India in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (in preparation).
- 'Snakes and Ladders in India: Some further discoveries', Artibus Asiae, forthcoming (LXVI, 1), 2006
- 'Tod's collection of Rajasthani paintings', in G. Tillotson ed., Tod's Rajasthan, Bombay, forthcoming 2007.