An 1816 CE #CompanyPainting from the #FraserAlbum of the 108 years old Dakoo of Jamalpur (in #Haryana) by #Artist Ghulam Ali Khan (or his workshop) on Sotheby's sale of 29 Oct 2025
This Album was commissioned by #EastIndiaCompany Civil Servant #WilliamFraser to document the people and the culture of Northern India.
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A Storyteller Performing with Musicians & Male Dancers
At #JaipurLiteratureFestival2026
c1816 #CompanyPainting from #Delhi from the #FraserAlbum (discovered by William Dalrymple in a colonial house in Scotland, UK) & from the collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan sold by Christie's on Oct 28, 2025 for £787,400
Jaipurlitfest
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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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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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Commissioned by Nawab Asaf al-Daula of #Awadh as a part of a famine relief project in 1784 CE, the Bara Imambara at #Lucknow #India is an important place of celebration by #Shia #Muslims during #Muharram
This c1800 CE #CompanyPainting of the Complex is now at The Metropolitan #Museum of #Art, New York #TheMet
Martyrdom of #imamhussain at #karbala
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A 'Dorcah' (Dog keeper)
Balfour Album (26 #CompanyPainting's) made by #Artist Shaykh Muhammad Amir of #Bengal sold by Lyonand Turnbull June 21 for £122,700
Balfour arrived in #India in 1834 as an Assistant Surgeon to the #EastIndiaCompany s #Madras Medical Service
He wrote on Indian Languages, Literature, Forestry & Medicine including an 'Encyclopedia of India & Southern Asia' published at Madras in 1857
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The #Agra Fort from the North & near the #TajMahal by #Artist Sita Ram, commissioned by the Marquess & Marchioness of #Hastings The Earl of Moria (1754-1826)
This 1815 CE #CompanyPainting from a set was made when the Marquess, as the #EastIndiaCompany Governor General at #Barrackpore #Bengal undertook a journey from #Calcutta to the #Himalayas North of #Delhi in 1814 to inspect British possessions & meet Indian rulers along the way
Sold by Sotheby's on April 24 for £190, 500
Sharad Mohan