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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.
#ArtHistory #IndianHeritage #Art #History #Heritage #BritishInIndia #IndianHistory #MastoArt #Histodons
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
#IndianHeritage #Art #Paintings #History #Heritage #BritishInIndia #ArtHistory #IndianHistory #Musicians #Entertainment #Folklore #artoftheday #MastoArt #Histodons
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
#IndianHistory #BritishInIndia #art #indianHeritage #ArtHistory #History #Heritage #Histodons #MastoArt
#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.
#ChaloChamba #RainySeason #MonsoonSeason #Rains #MonsoonMagic #Photography #FlowerPhotography #Flowers #Photograph #Monsoons #Rain #Himalaya
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
#ArtHistory #BritishInIndia #IndianHistory #Art #IndianHeritage #Painting #History #Heritage #ArtOfTheDay #MastoArt #Histodons #CompanySchool #EastIndiaCompany
'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
#ArtHistory #BritishInIndia #IndianHeritage #Heritage #History #IndianHistory #Art #artoftheday #MastoArt #Histodons
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
#India #Art #ArtHistory #IndianHeritage #Histodons #MastoArt #IndianHistory #Paintings #BritishInIndia #EastIndiaCompany
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
#IndianHistory #ArtHistory #Art #artoftheday #Paris2024Olympic #IndianHeritage #BritishInIndia #Paintings #History #Heritage #Painting #MastoArt #Histodons
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
#Art #IndianHistory #Histodons #History #MastoArt #BritishInIndia #britishempire #EastIndiaCompany #IndianHeritage #Heritage #MilitaryHistory #ArtHistory
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
#IndianHeritage #Art #Artist #MastoArt #Histodons #Heritage #IndianHistory #ArtHistory #Painting #BritishInIndia #China #Iran #Africa #India #Entertainment #Music
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
#BritishInIndia #IndianHeritage #MastoArt #History #Art #Artist #Paintings #IndianHistory #Mastodons #ArtHistory #Heritage #MughalMonuments #Painting #Religion #Islam
'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
#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #MastoArt #Paintings #BritishInIndia #Heritage #Histodons #History #Entertainment
From the #DavidCollection at #Copenhagen #Denmark 'A Company of Englishmen' with the clumsy Army Officer Tom Raw overturning a #Huqqa during dinner at #Calcutta #Bengal
c1830 #CompanyPainting from #Patna #Bihar #India by an Indian #Artist based on a work by an Irish #EastIndiaCompany officer & artist, Charles D'Oyly, who founded an #Art society strangely named as the 'Bihar School of Athens'.
(Why Athens?)
#BritishInIndia #IndianHeritage #MastoArt #Histodons #History #Heritage #Paintings
A Silk Cotton Tree (Bombax ceiba)
These trees are in full bloom in & around #Delhi now
This also means that the #Hindu #Festival of #Holi is not far off.
The flowers of this tree is used to make red colour, no chemicals needed.
c1800 CE #CompanyPainting from #Calcutta #Bengal #India from the Carlton Rochell collection sold by Sothebys on 27th Oct 2021 for £32,760
#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Painting #Heritage #History #Artist #Histodons #MastoArt #IndianCulture #BritishInIndia #Art
In support of the saying 'To Blow One's Top Off' I present this c1815 CE #CompanyPainting from #Benares #Varanasi now at British Library #Museum
The front & back #Painting of a Sepoy (Soldier) of #EastIndiaCompany
With Military Caps like that, even a dog bark would've been sufficient to blow his top off!
#BritishInIndia #Art #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Paintings #Heritage #Histodons #History#Heritage #Artist #MastoArt #Museums #Military #Uniform
A Tamarind Branch
c1800 CE #CompanyPainting from #Kolkata #Bengal likely to have been made by an #Artist commissioned by William Roxburgh, who became the 1st Superintendent of the #Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1793
Over the next 20 years, he assembled over 2500 #Paintings & copies were made for his #EastIndiaCompany friends like Lord Wellesley
From the collection of Toby Falk sold by Christies on 27th Oct 2023 for £60,500
#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Art #MastoArt #Histodons #BritishInIndia
Love this!
(And the #Fish that wifey is cooking)
A Chowta Dantnia (#Bengal Yellowfin Seabream)
#CompanyPainting made by #Artist Bhawani Das of #Patna for #ImpeyAlbum in 1783 CE, the year Lord & #LadyImpey left #Calcutta for England
From the Toby Falk colln sold by Christies for £94,500
Lord Impey was the #EastIndiaCompany first Chief Justice of the High Court at #Kolkata #India
#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Painting #Heritage #Art #History #Histodons #MastoArt #BritishInIndia #GoodNight
Just finished my dinner and before I wish everyone #GoodNight here is what I had, an Eggplant (Aubergines to some).
This 19th century #CompanyPainting from #Calcutta #Bengal was sold by Christies on 22nd March 2023.
#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Paintings #Histodons #History #Heritage #Artist #Art #BritishInIndia #EastIndiaCompany #MastoArt #Cusine #Food #Painting
A Lesser Coucal (Centropus Bengalensis on a Frangipani (Plumeria Alba) Branch.
This stunning #CompanyPainting was made by #Artist Shaykh Zain al-Din native of #Patna for the #ImpeyAlbum of #LadyImpey of #Calcutta #Bengal in 1777 CE
This #Painting was discovered in the 1950's & was auctioned by Christies on 27th Oct 2023 from the Toby Falk collection for £504,000.
#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Paintings #Heritage #History #EastIndiaCompany #MastoArt #Art #BritishInIndia #Histodons #Bird
The usual combination: High Society & Money Lending.
c1780 CE #CompanyPainting from #Madras now at British Library of the socialite Lady Helena Oakley who once hosted Tipu Sultan's sons at her 1794 CE New Year's Ball & the notorious money lender Sir Admiral Edward Hughes, Commander of #RoyalNavy in the East Indies & #India
#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Museum #Painting #BritishInIndia #Art #Heritage #History #EastIndiaCompany #MastoArt #Museums #Paintings
#GoodMorning everyone
My #NewYearsResolutions are made.
I am going to eat healthy!
Like, a 'Papaya' as in this c1800 CE #CompanyPainting from #Calcutta #Bengal made for Major James Nathaniel Rind, who commissioned a large number of botanical & zoological #Paintings during his time in #India
Sold @bonhams1793 for £127,000.
#IndianHeritage #BritishInIndia #IndianHistory #Art #Heritage #History #EastIndiaCompany #MastoArt #Painting #Flora #Fauna
#HappyNewYear
Have a great year ahead.
c1825 CE #CompanyPainting of a 'Foxtail Millet' from the Welch collection auctioned by Sotheby's.
Production of natural history paintings for British & #EastIndiaCompany patrons began in the 1770s & were first commissioned by Dr James Kerr, a Scottish surgeon at #Bengal who arrived in #India in 1772.
BTW, Millets are fast becoming a fashionable staple food for Indians!
#BritishInIndia #IndianHistory #IndianHeritage #Art #Paintings #History #Heritage #Food #Agriculture #Painting #MastoArt
Village of Jeewah Moocuddum near Rania, #Haryana on the outskirts of #Delhi, with #WilliamFraser's Circle of Village Folk
c1816 CE #CompanyPainting from #FraserAlbum from the Welch collection sold by Sotheby's on Oct 25 for £444,500
The album commissioned by William (1784-1835) & his brother James Fraser of #EastIndiaCompany is a series of brilliant #Paintings depicting the characters & local life in Delhi & its surrounding areas
#IndianHeritage #Art #IndianHistory #Painting #BritishInIndia
The most prominent #Heritage #Monument for #India is, undoubtedly, the #TajMahal at #Agra #UttarPradesh
This 1815 CE #CompanyPainting 'The Taj Mahal by Moonlight' by Sita Ram commissioned by the Marquess of Hastings & Governor General of India at #Calcutta, #Bengal during his tour from #Barrackpore to the #Himalayas via #Delhi
From the Welch collection auctioned by Sotheby's on 25 Oct for £482,600.
#IndianHeritage #BritishInIndia #IndianHistory #Art #Painting #History
A superb c1816 CE #CompanyPainting from the #FraserAlbum of 'An Assembly of Village Elders with #WilliamFraser's Munshi & Diwan', #Delhi or #Haryana, from the Edith & Stuart Cary Welch collection auctioned by Sotheby's on Oct 25 for £952,500.
The Munsh &i Diwan sit on the right, with books of accounts in front of them.
The top portion identifies each one of them in Fraser's handwriting.
#IndianHistory #BritishInIndia #Art #Paintings #IndianHeritage #History #Heritage #MastoArt #Painting
Outstanding results from the sale of Edith & James Carry Welch collection by Sotheby's on 25bOct, 2023
This 1777 CE #Company#Painting of ' A Spotted Mounia & a Purple-Rumped Sunbird on Flowering Branches, with Butterflies, a Caterpillar, a Beetle & a Centipede' by Zayn al-Din, native of #Patna #Bihar from the #ImpeyAlbum of Lady Impey of #Calcutta #Bengal, fetched £762,000 against an estimate of £150,000-200,000
#IndianHeritage #BritishInIndia #Art #IndianHistory #Paintings #MastoArt #History
A Kite Maker.
With mechanisation now, the art of making hand-made #Kites is almost dead
As a child I used to see #Kite-makers in all the streets of #Delhi.
Now, its been decades since I saw one
This c1850-70 CE #CompanyPainting of a #KiteMaker from #Benaras (#Varanasi now)#UttarPradesh ,#India is now at Victoria & Albert #Museum London.
#IndianHistory #Art #Heritage #Games #Sports #Entertainment #Painting #IndianHeritage #History #ArtOfTheDay #MastoArt #BritishInIndia #Museums #Paintings
#Paintings of such genre rarely come up in the #Art market for auction
One such #CompanyPainting of a 'Spot-billed or Grey Pelican' dated 1780 CE, by artist Shaykh Zayn al-Din, native of #Patna #Bihar #India & from #ImpeyAlbum of #LadyImpey (Mary Reade), wife of Sir Elijah Impey, the #EastIndiaCompany Chief Justice at #Calcutta (#Kolkata) #Bengal was sold by Sotheby on 25th Oct 2023 for £787,400
#IndianHistory #IndianHeritage #Painting #MastoArt #ArtOfTheDay #Heritage #History #BritishInIndia
First knock of #Winters at the doorsteps of #Delhi #NewDelhi #India
The night temperature is below 20°c now
It is that time of the year when one heads to a 'Cotton Carder' for re-quilting of sleep-overs.
This c.1770 CE #CompanyPainting of a 'Carder' is from #Tanjore (now #Thanjavur) in #TamilNadu and now at #Art Gallery of New South Wales, #Australia (#Museum)
#IndianHistory #Heritage #BritishInIndia #IndianHeritage #ArtOfTheDay #History #Paintings #Museums #Painting #MastoArt #IndianCulture
A Species of Minor
(A #Bird common to #Patna #Bihar #India )
c1820-30 CE #CompanyPainting from #Calcutta (#Kolkata) #Bengal on Bonhams online sale of 18-26th May 2023.
#IndianHeritage #History #Art #CompanySchool #Paintings #IndianHistory #CompanyPaintings #Heritage #BritishInIndia #EastIndiaCompany #MastoArt #Birds #Nature #Fauna #Painting #NaturalHabitat
This 1798 AD #CompanyPainting from #Calcutta #Bengal of a 'Siyagush' or Caracal is now at British Library, London.
On the top of this #Painting, a handwritten note states: '(This #Cat or #Animal) springs with great velocity & strength and also runs with astonishing fleetness for a short distance - if it misses its prey in the first spring it relinquishes the chase'
#IndianHeritage #BritishInIndia #BritishLibrary #Art #Heritage #History #MastoArt #IndianHistory #Paintings #Wildlife
As I finished my bath today, I, out of the blue & for no reason, remembered that I as a child always had a 'Rubber Duckie' in my bath!
So, for today's post, a tribute to my childhood habits.
c1804 AD #CompanyPainting from #Calcutta #kolkata #bengal #india 'Pink Headed Duck (Rhodonessa caryophyllacea)' now on view at British Library current exhibition 'Animals: #art Science & Sound'.
#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #BritishInIndia #history #painting #heritage
Good morning @pvonhellermannn +
So, #Monsoons in full force in #India & #DelhiRains have thrown life out of gear.
But, lovely sight too!
Which brings me to this c1815 AD #CompanyPainting #IndianMiniaturePainting of #Mehrauli Jharna during the #Monsoon & now at #MuseumOfIslamicArts #Doha #Qatar
Mehrauli in #NewDelhi is one of the oldest parts of #Delhi dating back to 6th century & is also known as Mehrauli Archaeological Park.
#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Art #BritishInIndia #Paintings #History #Heritage #Museums #Rains