Indonesians and their Arab world: guided mobility among labor migrants and Mecca pilgrims By Mirjam Lücking. Cornell University Press, 2021. 276 pages. Hardback, $115, ISBN-13: 978-1501753114. Paperback, $28.95, ISBN-13: 978-1501753121. Ebook, $13.99, ISBN-13: 978-1501753138.

and vital feeling for nature.” This hybridized relationship between British painting and that of Indian and also Chinese artists, such as “Lamqua” (Kwan Kiu Cheong), the first Chinese portrait painter (possibly a student of Chinnery) to work with oils and be exhibited in the west, is an area which demands further research. Overall, this book is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of eighteenthand early nineteenth-century visual art and its relationship with the East India Company and the commercial and financial networks of Britain more widely. Building on existing works on the exotic and colonial in British art it forcefully establishes a discrete new area for research, with a previously marginalized cast of artists to the gaze of our contemporary scholars in fresh and fruitful ways. It will prove to be of immense value to researchers of British art, colonial and maritime history, as well as scholars of the cultural encounter between Britain and Asia. Although it features a wealth of archival research on almost every page, it is written in a lively and engaging style that makes its perusal pleasurable and is full of insights. The book is handsomely produced with a generous 102 colour illustrations, of which many are full page.