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c1816 #CompanyPainting from the #FraserAlbum of 'Ascetics Encamped outside a Walled Town' #Delhi or #Haryana from the collection of Mary & Cheney Cowles sold by Christies Inc on April 28 for £ 304,800
The album was commissioned by #WilliamFraser a senior administrator of #EastIndiaCompany
This important album contained #Paintings depicting the everyday life in #India, the ordinary life of various groups of people.
#Histodons #IndianHistory #ArtHistory #MastoArt #IndianHeritage #Art #History
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
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
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
#MastoArt #Histodons #artoftheday #IndianHeritage #Painting #ArtHistory #Artist #Heritage #History #Paintings #IndianHistory #Religion #Islam
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
#Art #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #ArtHistory #Heritage #History #Histodons #MastoArt
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
A botanical study (clerodendron), from an album executed for Mountstuart Grant Duff, Governor of #Madras now #Chennai
This c1875 CE #CompanyPainting attributed to
the #Artist Rungia Raju will be on Bonhams auction on May 21
Rungia appears to be a descendant of a family of #Artists who worked for the officials of the #EastIndiaCompany
Duff came from a family historically associated with #India, and was particularly interested in gardening & botany
Here is the headless astronomical shadow entity Rahu again, in this c1825 CE #CompanyPainting from #Patna #Bihar #India now at British #Museum London
Riding a Blue Ram, he is looking out for the Sun or the Moon which he will devour to replace his head which was cut off by the #Hindu God #Vishnu for eating His food and thus causing #SolarEclipse2024 & Lunar eclipse some other time.
#IndianMythology #IndianHistory #Art #Artist #Histodons #IndianHeritage #Hinduism #Paintings #MastoArt #Heritage
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
Portrait of Buhadoorah, inscribed possibly by William Fraser as '..ONE OF THE HEAD MEN OF SAWPLUH(?) DISTRICT OF MAUDOUTHEE(?), WEST OF DEHLEE (#Delhi), 30 MILES'
Sawpluh & MAUDOUTHEE is now identified as Sampla & Mandhoti in Rohtak district of #Haryana
The Album was discovered in 1980 at Inverness, Scotland & was the scholarship of the #Art #Historian Toby Falk.
c1820 CE #CompanyPainting from the #FraserAlbum from the Toby Falk coll sold by Christies for £264,600
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
#Caturday Once More!
A Study of a Domestic #Cat
c1845 CE #CompanyPainting from #Lucknow on paper watermarked 'Morbey & Saunders 1842' from the colln. of S C Welch auctioned by Sotheby's on 25 Oct 2023 for £15,240.
Most paper imported to #India from #Europe was used within a few years of its arrival, so this #Painting was probably executed in 1845.
The manufacturer, located at 13 George Street, Mansion House, #London was a Paper & Banknote manufacturer.
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
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 +
Moving from #Delhi to 20 kilometres south to #NewDelhi we come to this fabulous scene of the '#Mehrauli Jharna (fountain) during the #Monsoon). This c1815 AD #CompanyPainting also at #Museum of #Islamic #Art Qatar
This 17th century #Mughal complex survives but the lake in the background is now a concrete jungle.
It is suggested that the scene may be of 'Phool Walon ki Sair' festival held during #MonsoonSeason when diving competitions were held
This c1815 AD #CompanyPainting from #India now at #Museum of #Islamic #Art at Qatar depicts a hard to recognise #Delhi scene now.
The #RedFort on the right, Salimgarh Fort on left & #River #Yamuna flowing through the connecting bridge.
Crocodiles & #Sepoys (soldiers) of #EastIndiaCompany can be seen too.
And, ships!
Presently surrounded by residential complexes, only the forts & the bridge exists with a road (highway) now passing under the bridge instead of the river!
#IndianHistory #History
#Barrackpore Menagerie, known as The Institution for Promoting the Natural #History of #India was established outside #Calcutta (#Kolkata) #Bengal by #EastIndiaCompany Governor General Richard Wellesley in 1801.
Aim was to increase Western scientific knowledge of the #Flora & #Fauna of India.
Drawings of the specimens were made by Indian artists like this 'Purple Heron' #CompanyPainting made by Guru Dayal in 1805 AD & now on view at British Library's exhibition '#Animals: #Art Science & Sound'