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Ah, the #nostalgia of a London-Calcutta bus trip: 🌍🚍 a journey so riveting, even Wikipedia bots are blocking access to its secrets. 😱📵 But fear not, because #phabricator will definitely clear things up... if you ever decode its labyrinthine existence. 😂🔍
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%E2%80%93Calcutta_bus_service #London #Calcutta #BusTrip #WikipediaBots #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the #nostalgia of a London-Calcutta bus trip: 🌍🚍 a journey so riveting, even Wikipedia bots are blocking access to its secrets. 😱📵 But fear not, because #phabricator will definitely clear things up... if you ever decode its labyrinthine existence. 😂🔍
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%E2%80%93Calcutta_bus_service #London #Calcutta #BusTrip #WikipediaBots #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the #nostalgia of a London-Calcutta bus trip: 🌍🚍 a journey so riveting, even Wikipedia bots are blocking access to its secrets. 😱📵 But fear not, because #phabricator will definitely clear things up... if you ever decode its labyrinthine existence. 😂🔍
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%E2%80%93Calcutta_bus_service #London #Calcutta #BusTrip #WikipediaBots #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the #nostalgia of a London-Calcutta bus trip: 🌍🚍 a journey so riveting, even Wikipedia bots are blocking access to its secrets. 😱📵 But fear not, because #phabricator will definitely clear things up... if you ever decode its labyrinthine existence. 😂🔍
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%E2%80%93Calcutta_bus_service #London #Calcutta #BusTrip #WikipediaBots #HackerNews #ngated

Découvrez mon blogue sur le développement soutenable et l'ESS : Toutes les innovations vertes et les grandes tendances de l'écologie, en matière d'habillement, santé, bien être, d'alimentation, de transport et d'énergie, en matière de logement, etc..

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#Blogue #blog #journal #nature #naturel #HongKong #Chine #Inde #Bombay #Inde #Indian #France #Paris #Avignon #Srilanka #Calcutta #Pondichéry #Vienne #Autriche #Bosnie #Sarajevo #Albanie #Serbie #Macedoine #Izmir #bio

An unusual 18th century #MughalArt #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Agra falsely attributed to #Mughal #Artist Dalchand of "Emperor #Jahangir (ruled 1605-1627 CE) with a Peri (Fairy) & a Mallard"

Now at Indian #Museum #Calcutta (#Kolkata) #Bengal #India

Dalchand was a #Rajput artist of the #Kishangarh #Rajasthan School of #Art & may have trained at #Lahore before moving to #Delhi in 1707 CE

#IndianHistory #ArtHistory #artoftheday #IndianHeritage #History #Heritage #Painting #MastoArt #Histodons

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

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

Villagers gather around a Fire on a Winter Night.

The man in the centre appears to be Raja Balwant Singh of #Jasrota #Jammu but is disputed by the late B N Goswamy, the world famous #Art historian.

c1760 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting by #Nainsukh of #Guler #HimachalPradesh now at Indian #Museum #Calcutta #Bengal

Today #India celebrates #Lohri to mark end of the #WinterSeason by sitting around a fire.

#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Painting #Heritage #History #Hindu & #Sikh #Festival

#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.

#WorldHeritageWeek

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

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

#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

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

#InternationalTigerDay #TigerDay

c1820 AD #CompanyPainting made for Lady Flora wife of #EastIndiaCompany Governor General Francis Rawdon the Marquess of #Hastings in #Calcutta #kolkata by an artist from #Bengal #india on view at British Library current exhibition 'Animals: #Art Science and Sound'.

#animals #tiger #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #history #heritage #mastoart #BritishInIndia #BritishLibrary #museums #paintings #museum #painting

#InternationalTigerDay #TigerDay

c1820 AD #CompanyPainting made for Lady Flora wife of #EastIndiaCompany Governor General Francis Rawdon the Marquess of #Hastings in #Calcutta #kolkata by an artist from #Bengal #india on view at British Library current exhibition 'Animals: #Art Science and Sound'.

#animals #tiger #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #history #heritage #mastoart #BritishInIndia #BritishLibrary #museums #paintings #museum #painting

#InternationalTigerDay #TigerDay

c1820 AD #CompanyPainting made for Lady Flora wife of #EastIndiaCompany Governor General Francis Rawdon the Marquess of #Hastings in #Calcutta #kolkata by an artist from #Bengal #india on view at British Library current exhibition 'Animals: #Art Science and Sound'.

#animals #tiger #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #history #heritage #mastoart #BritishInIndia #BritishLibrary #museums #paintings #museum #painting

#InternationalTigerDay #TigerDay

c1820 AD #CompanyPainting made for Lady Flora wife of #EastIndiaCompany Governor General Francis Rawdon the Marquess of #Hastings in #Calcutta #kolkata by an artist from #Bengal #india on view at British Library current exhibition 'Animals: #Art Science and Sound'.

#animals #tiger #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #history #heritage #mastoart #BritishInIndia #BritishLibrary #museums #paintings #museum #painting