g katyan misraさんのイラストまとめ

Ceremonial Bullock cart बैलगाड़ी there can be various regional names too
its beautifully decorated thus it seems it is used for procession, wedding or ? well covered richly decorated even OX or bulls are adorning beautifull cloths over them
19th century Painting @ExploreWellcome

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!

now time to come out of slumber! wake up

Ramayan, Yuddha Kand युद्धकाण्ड
Painting depicts death of Kumbhakarna, by Sahib Din at
Udaipur, 1652
his arm legs & finally head, severed by Shri Rama's arrows, crashes to ground &crushes part of city of Lanka
@britishlibrary

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

titled as Hindu Calendar on painting on cloth/fabric 1871-72? from Rajasthan with images of Lord Vishnu Ganesh & Krishna, various signs of Zodiac (rashi?)
from Library of Congress
such things were in continuation of centuries old knowledge of astronomical or Jyotish Science

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

Potter & wife, 1785 Painting from Madras @V_and_A he is making pot of potter's wheel while she making khaprail (tiles?) खपरैल we call it, used on roof, many such tiles laid to protect roof from rain.
from Boileau Album

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