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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. '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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. #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.

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. #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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. #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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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