Amiban of Rania, #Haryana & probably the 6th legitimate wife of #WilliamFraser, an official of the #EastIndiaCompany in this circa 1816 #CompanyPainting from the #FraserAlbum on Sotheby's auction of 29th Oct, 2025
Est. £150,000-250,000
The boy next to her is mentioned as Hazir Khan, son of Tax Collector Nijabat Khan, but is actually Fraser's own, to avoid a scandal back home in #Scotland
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#IncredibleIndia #HPTourism #Chamba #India
Hydrangeas in full bloom at #KalaTop #Dalhousie #HimachalPradesh (8000 Feet / 2480 Meters above Sea Level).
Built in 1925, this lovely bungalow built by the British is now the Forest Rest House of the Government of India.
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The Palace of Rohtas Garh #Bihar, signed by William Daniell
Sold by @Sothebys on 27th October 2021 from the Carlton Rochell collection of #CompanyPainting s for £ 302,400
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'Two Caparisoned Elephants' from the Louisa Parlby Album, c1795 #CE #CompanyPainting from #Murshidabad #India sold by Sotheby's on March 20th for $53,340
Louisa was the wife of Col. James Parlby, an Engineer with the #EastIndiaCompany at #Bengal
The 'B' on the #Elephant may refer to Edward Eyre Burgess, a Judge at Murshidabad in 1772 AD who travelled around with pomp & ceremony
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As #Delhi gets 'verdant foliage' after the #DelhiRains I am beset with overgrown grass in my garden
So, I have to call the 'Grass Cutter' and, here he is in this c1830 CE #CompanyPainting from the Balfour Album of 26 #Paintings from the studio of Shaykh Muhammad Amir of #Karraya #Bengal sold by Lyon & Turnbull for £ 112,700 on 21st June from the collection of Mildred Archer
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Gold!
For #ArshadNadeem of #Pakistan
And, a Silver for #NeerajChopra of #India
Congratulations to both for winning #Javelin at #Paris2024 #OlympicGames
'A Trooper of Skinners Horse holding a Javelin', c1815 CE #CompanyPainting from Hansi, #Haryana from the Carlton Rochell collection sold by Sotheby's on 27th October 2021 for £107,100
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Inscribed Lieutenant Colonel Daly, this c1850 CE #Painting from #Awadh or #Bengal could be either Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Dermot Daly of the 4th Light Dragoons (1842-46) or his son Sir Henry Dermot Daly who was awarded the rank in 1859 with Hodson's Horse irregular cavalry
From the Toby Falk collection sold by Christie's on 27th Oct 2023
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Multinationalism!
c1740 CE painting from #Surat #Gujarat of 'A #European Lady Resting on a Diwan, listening to a Female (#Persian) #Musician with an #African Youth Lounging before them
#Chinese #Paintings & Porcelain can be seen in the background
Sold by Lyonand Turnbull, Auction House of #London on 12 June for £175,201
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Eastern Gate of #JamaMasjid at #Delhi
Built by the #Mughal ruler #ShahJahan between 1644-1658 CE, Jama Masjid is the largest Mosque in #India
From Plate 1 of the first set of Thomas Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery' printed in 1795 CE, now at British Library, London.
#EidMubarak #EidUlAdha to all those celebrating #Eid today
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'An Indian Dancing Girl' from #Faizabad #Awadh with #Hookah
1772 CE #Painting by #Artist Tilly Kettle, the first prominent British artist to operate in #India
From the Paul Melon collection now at Yale Center for British #Art USA
Now watching #HeeraMandi which premieres on #Netflix is the story of these 'Nautch Girls' & the struggle for #Indian Independence from the #British rule
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Sharad Mohan