'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
#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics
(5/n)
... [#Dutch?] #EastIndiaCompany and the #French #EastIndiaCompany. Restrictions on where finished goods could be purchased 
Golly. We witness Sam's part in subjecting India to British rule.
In the Charter Act from April 1661, Charles II affirmed and extended the East India Company's state-like rights in India, preparing the later subjection of the subcontinent to British rule.
Here, in December 1661, a contract is signed between the EIC and the King. And it's our Sam who signs the deal in the King's name! Wow.
Sadly I can't find any details on the December '61 contract.
#Pepys #EastIndiaCompany
With the end of the Battle of #Delhi & capture (on 20th Sept) of the last #Mughal ruler #BahadurShahZafar the #MughalEmpire surrenders to the #EastIndiaCompany on this day in 1857
The two sons of the emperor are shot dead by Major William Stephen Raikes Hodson of the Company's Bengal Army on 21st Sept 1857 at Delhi Gate
This last Mughal Crown taken as a war trophy is now at British Museum
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
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
Inscribed Lieutenant Colonel Daly, this c1850 CE #Painting from #Awadh or #Bengal could be either Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Dermot Daly of the 4th Light Dragoons (1842-46) or his son Sir Henry Dermot Daly who was awarded the rank in 1859 with Hodson's Horse irregular cavalry
From the Toby Falk collection sold by Christie's on 27th Oct 2023
"Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories" is a sweeping and jarring work of how opium became an insidious capitalistic tool to generate wealth for the British Empire and other Western powers at the expense of an epidemic of addiction in China and the impoverishment of millions of farmers in India. #History #EastIndiaCompany #BritishIndia #Dutch #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/454/smoke-and-ashes-opiums-hidden-histories/
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
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?)
Maharaja Gulab Singh on Lake Wular in #Kashmir
c1840 CE #Pahari #Painting from #Guler #HimachalPradesh from the Toby Falk coll sold by Christies for £32,760
Gulab Singh was given the title of Maharaja by #RanjitSingh of #Lahore #Punjab in 1810 CE for commanding the #Sikh forces in suppressing local revolts.
He went on to annex #Mankot #Jasrota & #Basohli in #Jammu
In 1846 the #EastIndiaCompany recognised him as the Ruler of #Jammu #Kashmir
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
Centered around the story of the Sassoons, a Jewish family in Ottoman Baghdad that spanned two continents, this book is not only a family story but also a story of global trade and global capitalism. #History #OttomanEmpire #EastIndiaCompany #Sassoon #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/400/the-global-merchants-the-enterprise-and-extravagan/
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
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
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.
Funded by the slave-trader Elihu Yale who was appointed the #EastIndiaCompany Governor General at #Madras #Chennai #India in 1687 CE, Yale University of Boston has apologised for its ties to Slavery
Elihu had donated £ 800 to the cash starved University in 1717
Only if #Museums could start returning object like this 7th century Karkota era (625-885 CE) statue of the #Hindu God #Vishnu from #Kashmir now at Yale #Art Gallery
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.
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
