g katyan misraさんのイラストまとめ

Capture of sikandarabad!
93rd Highlanders entering breach in wall of Secunderbagh, Lucknow, 16th November 1857 during Indian Mutiny
William George Drummond Stewart, at charge awarded with Victoria Cross, in total 18 VC awarded on that day, largest ever,
6 on 93rd Highlanders

Purusha (Hindu Primordial Figure)
often we hear in Vastu Shastra about Vastu purush?
18th century painting from #Nepal
@ global Nepali museum
what could have been depicted? why snake? various kundalini? zodiac signs?

Krishna as Shrinathji, brought to Mewar for safekeeping it during time of Aurangzeb
Painting from NATHDWARA, MEWAR, CIRCA 1880
@ChristiesInc lot159

Dance of Shiva, Natraj🙏
mid 19th century Painting from Kangra, @bonhams1793 lot158
Devi Parvati, Ganesh Kartikey & Banasur? play musical instrument accompanying Mahadev

Red, Blue and White Lotus of Hindostan’ from ‘Oriental Memoirs 1813’ by James Forbes
Beautifull rich documentation of flora fauna via company paintings
Flower

Bombax Malabaricum aka Semal/Shalmali/Silk Cotton Tree from ‘Illustrations of Indian Botany’ by Robert Wight, 1834
paintings in this book done by Rungiah and Govindoo
सेमल रुई is very soft like silk, considered warm!

कच्ची कली अनारकली!
Flower 18th century painting from Murshidabad
Nice beautiful documentation of #biodiversity of India in company paintings though few mughal paintings too are done on flora fauna

Shoemaker & wife (Chuckler's Wife) Painting from Trichinopoly, ca. 1850, company painting? @V_and_A
from set of 17 paintings on castes /occupation
Trichy ?

Virabhadra, the son of Shiva? Trichinopoly or Tiruchchirappalli? ca. 1825 company Painting @V_and_A
Veerbhadra? वीरभद्र a form of Shiv or born out of his जटा, the one who destroyed Yaksh or Yagya?
when shiv thrashed lock from his hair on ground, Virbhadra & Bhadrakali were born

from Boileau Album 1785 painting done at Madras, show fisherman taking out fish from Net & wife carrying fish in basket over her head @V_and_A wrongly captioned it as warrior? as detailed artist could be from Thanjavur (Tanjore)
net visible to catch fish swimming with stream