Sharad Mohan شرد ਸ਼ਰਦ शरद শরদさんのイラストまとめ

What a beautiful love story here!

A Bride & Bridegroom talking to one another as they are carried separately in Sedan Chairs.

1860 lithograph by Capt. George Francklin Atkinson, now at @ExploreWellcome
Titled 'Our Wedding'.
@DalrympleWill @dpanikkar

'Green Parrot', c1820 #CompanySchool #CompanyPainting from #Murshidabad #Bengal now with @ClevelandArt appears to depict a Female Derbyan Parakeet, also known as Lord Derby Parakeet.
Commissioned by officials of #EastIndiaCompany Indian artists made these in European styles.

Blossoming now.
Simbal or Seemal, commonly known as Cotton Tree in English.
This c1800 #CompanySchool #CompanyPainting from #Calcutta #Bengal titled 'Cotton Tree Flowers', now at @metmuseum
The cotton waft from this tree becomes a common sight during this time, causing allergies

As mercury heads North & it has begun to get uncomfortably hot, time to remember #Surya, the Sun-God, one of the 3 chief deities in the Vedas.
From @ExploreWellcome, 'Surya, the Sun Deity Driving in His Chariot', probably #Jaipur #Rajasthan, c1800 AD.
@LostTemple7 @Redhotpedia

#LockdownBlues: When Money runs short.
'A Naoriah Mahajan Moneylender', with his bookkeepers, c1850 #CompanySchool #CompanyPainting attributed to Muhammad Sanullah 'Sani' of #Jalandhar #Punjab, now at #DavidCollection.
Humour element: Shirt opens on the 'robust' Mahajan's stomach

Rao Raja Bhoj Singh of #Bundi #Rajasthan Batters a Leaping Tiger from a Tree, 17th century #Rajasthani school of art painting now in @harvartmuseums depicting a popular mode of Hunting. A sheep is tied to a tree as a bait as the hunter waits atop a 'Machan' to use his match lock.

#9pm9minute & here I am with the largest available candlelight. Hope #CoronaVirusInIndia goes away now!
#CoronaSuperstition.
This c1600 #Mughal painting of 'A Courtier holding a Candlestick', now in @britishlibrary is from S C Welch collection.
@DalrympleWill @iamrana @dpanikkar

#Lockdown21
Learning quite a few 'good things' of life.
Smoking, Drinking, Couch Potatoeing, Gambling.. #Pachisi for e.g.
This remarkable 1855 painting by #WilliamCarpenter of 'A Game of Pachisi' with @V_and_A is coloured elaborately with heightened shadows to deepen the contrast

#ArtJihad!
'Ladies Visiting Holy Men at a Shrine at Night'.
c1760 ad #ArtJihad by artist #MirKalanKhan of #Lucknow #Awadh.
C'est la #LoveJihad, actually. Yet another magnificent #DouceAlbum painting from @bodleianlibs @UniofOxford collection.
@DalrympleWill @iamrana @dpanikkar

Can't a man rest if he is a #COVID2019 suspect? What is happening below my window?
Sold by @SomersetAndWood (JK-137), 18th century #MughalArt of 'A Lady Dancing beneath Balcony'.
A beautiful #Indian #Mughal painting suggesting romance beneath Night-sky. Exceptionally detailed.