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About The Book : Excerpt from Catalogue of the Collection of Maps, Prints and Photographs Illustrating the History of the Island and City of Bombay; The particular function of a Local, in distinction to that of an Imperial Museum has been the subject of considerable debate among experts in recent years. Before the year 1850 local Museums were almost unknown in England or in India. The original stimulus was given to the movement for their establishment throughout England, by the first International Exhibition in 1851, a movement which soon afterwards spread to India. It lost its early momentum somewhat rapidly, and during the thirty years following its rise the condition of most of these institutions, founded with so much promise of bringing knowledge. About The Author : Cecil Leonard Burns (1863-1929) was one of a series of influential directors of the Sir J.J. School of Art in Bombay, such as John Lockwood Kipling and Gladstone Solomon at this period. Works by him are rare as his possessions were burnt in a docks fire on arrival home at Southampton. Thane was a destination for en plein air painting due to its open country and luminous light. Cecil Leonard Burns was a 19th Century British painter of genre scenes, flowers, mythological subjects and portraits. Burns studied under Sir Hubert von Herkomer at the Bushey School of Art. Besides exhibiting works at the Royal Academy and Society of British artists at Suffolk Street, he held the position of Principal of Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts from 1897 to 1899 and was then elected Principal of the Bombay School of Art, where he remained until 1918.