ABSTRACT
Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt was a British architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge. Wyatt’s career was primarily that of an architect. In terms of Orientalism, and like others such as Owen Jones, Wyatt saw great value in Indian design work. The chapter was published in Macmillan's Magazine, which was the first shilling magazine in Britain and was one of the first periodicals in which authors' names were applied to articles. Meanwhile the policy of the Secretary of State in Council of India has been to provide, for the use of the great centres of industry in this country, selections of those Indian art manufactures which are likely to be found most useful in each locality.
