Non esiste povertà peggiore
che non avere Amore da Dare

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Maria, Lady Nugent carried in a 'tonjon', accompanied by 24 bearers and attendants
Company School, Calcutta, April 1812
A tonjon was an open sedan chair carried by a single pole on men's shoulders

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Goddess Chinnamastā
unknown artist; Calcutta, West Bengal
20th century

read about Goddess Chinnamastā, Her iconography and symbolism on medium: https://t.co/td2ionQ3ok

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Kālī bronze from the Calcutta Art Gallery

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Messi Da, ruling streets of Calcutta from 16K kms away.

Artist: Sourav Roy.

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The Gallery of HMS Calcutta Portsmouth by James Tissot, 1877. One of my all-time favorite pieces of fashion art!

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Painting of Malabar Trogon, a Bird from Western Ghats, now on the Endangered List.
Dated 1779, by artist Zayn al-Din of & commissioned by in and, sold by Simon Ray Ltd.

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These 19th century embellished Jewish marriage contracts from Calcutta and Tangier are on view in the 'Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word' exhibition at the British Library

https://t.co/KHcmJkEXPY
https://t.co/IxPSoV2BAL

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Robotech: Descent. The crew of the submarine Redeemer, out of New Calcutta, must stop a group of Zentraedi Malcontents who have stolen a RDF Destroyer, naming themselves The Lyktauros and terrorizing coastal settlements. With them are 2 prototype VS-1A Argonaut Veritech subs.

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House (1795) of the eminent botanist William Roxburg, author of Flora Indica the first collection of Indian plants and superintendent of the Botanic Garden in Calcutta. From James Baillie Fraser's 'Views of Calcutta and its Environs' 1826, British Library

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Sketch between commissions and comic work dedicated to Calcutta, another artist from my country, I heard today he lost his mom. we're with ya, lad

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Happy The of Mary “Mary showed complete trust in God by agreeing to be used as an instrument in his plan of salvation. She trusted him in spite of her nothingness …#St. Teresa of Calcutta

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English servants Indian style

The English servants in the train of Lord Moira, later Marquess Hastings, painted by Sita Ram with rather tight smiles. Hastings made a long journey from Calcutta to Delhi in 1814, recorded by Sita ram in watercolours
British library

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Within a few months, the Calcutta Committee had raised £14,000 for the relief of the Irish poor. To oversee the distribution of this money, a team was assembled in Dublin, headed by the Anglican Archbishop, Richard Whately.

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Saraswati lithograph 1885-90 Calcutta Art Studio. Saraswati in a rich golden sari appears more regal. Example of a commercial appropriation of god-print.

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🐼 Scientific results of the Second Yarkand Mission
Calcutta: Printed by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1878-1891.
https://t.co/83pZtrQWkg

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