🦴 Indian Tertiary and post Tertiary Vertebrata.
Calcutta: Geological Survey Office [etc., etc.], 1874-1902.
https://t.co/OmH6GQQBRl

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

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Coming 7/14!

FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA IV
• Calcutta (1946)
Audio Commentary by Film Critic Nick Pinkerton
• An Act of Murder (1948)
Audio Commentary by Film Historian Samm Deighan
• Six Bridges to Cross (1955)
Audio Commentary by Samm Deighan

CALCUTTA - Also on DVD

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Ama la vita.
Amala nella piena felicità
o nella solitudine assoluta.
Ama la vita, così com'è,
senza pretese.

- Madre Teresa di Calcutta -





🖌 Anna Magruder






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Comics Conference Alert!THE WORLD OF COMICS: IT'S ART, AESTHETICS AND FUTURE. Calcutta Girl's College and Jadavpur University, Department of English is going to conduct a two days ICCR sponsored National Seminar on Comics.Venue, contact details are mentioned in the images

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Welcome! The Famine Tales from India and Britain project is well underway! We are collaborating with scroll painters from rural Bengal and graphic artists from the city of Calcutta to tell the stories of famines past. Check out our work-in-progress at https://t.co/ldBENIRQe2

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Jamdanee, bibi-mistress of William Hickey, painted by
Thomas Hickey, 1787 at Calcutta

normally women not allowed themselves to be painted by a Western male artist & in such pose?

painting seems so perfect as photo?
so much detail
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

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Calcutta is Kruger’s first mate/quartermaster. She’s a talented sharpshooter and is honestly the one keeping the crew from falling apart. However, her background is mysterious, even to her own crew.

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Giotto - La Natività
(det)

“È Natale ogni volta che rimani in silenzio per ascoltare l’altro .
È Natale ogni volta che riconosci i tuoi limiti e la tua debolezza”.

Madre Teresa di Calcutta

I miei auguri a tutti

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mi è venuto così bene che posso piangere.
Calcutta amami pls

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Today is World Post day. Postal services of India began in the 18th century & were administered by EIC. Post Offices were estd. in Mumbai, Madras & Calcutta betwn 1764 & 1766. Postal service was opened to the public later. Postage rates varied with distance. 1/5

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St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us.

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Islamic College of Calcutta or Madrasah-e-Aliah, the 1st educational institute set up in 1780 by Warren Hastings, to train Muslim men for office in the courts of justice.
Painting by Charles D’Oyly’s 1840. Now it is Aliah University.

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Calcutta lithograph of Chhinnamasta , She Whose Head Is Severed. One of the ten goddesses of Tantra
.

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Una felice vigilia di Pasqua con questa stupenda poesia di Madre Teresa:
Ho Sentito il Battito del Tuo Cuore! – Madre Teresa di Calcutta
"Ti ho trovato in tanti posti, Signore. Ho sentito il battito del tuo cuore
nella quiete perfetta dei campi"

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From c1820 "A Study of Ashoka Tree (Jonesia asoca)" Plants not encounterd by British. from
'As in manner of scientific drawings, the branch is centred on the page, with pod & seeds on top right. Flower details are shown below'

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Dated 1778, now in a lovely painting by "An Orange Headed Golden Thrush & a Death's Head Moth on a Purple Ebony Orchid" (Kachnar Ki Kali) from
This one is my favourite too!

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