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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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