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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. 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

    #EastIndiaCompany #Artist

  13. 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

  14. 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