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🌍I've illustrated a set of stamps commemorating 150 years of Jules Verne's classic adventure.
Stamp 3: In which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout journey to Allahabad by elephant, with Inspector hot on their heels.
@guernseystamps
Ashish Cornelius is a Freelance environment/concept artist based out of Allahabad, India https://t.co/ttT3AQJOUh
#loveart #thattick #illustration #conceptart
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Wolfgang Weinhardt - Samsara - near Triveni Sangam, Pontoon Bridges, Allahabad, India
Pilgrims & devotees, Nagas and Juna Akhara Sadhus, gather to bathe in a sacred river on Maha Kumbh Mela, the largest spiritual gathering in the world., of the Maha Kumbh Mela.
Yesterday I watched #HouseofSecretsTheBurariDeaths and i was shocked while watching the closure
Anyway don't you think this is a metaphor for our times? Everything topsy turvy?
See this painting u will Amazed that the turbans haven’t fallen off?
Collection: Allahabad Museum
DVADASA BHAV: Mrigank in China? Surrounded by followers mughal painting
Mughal court artist at Allahabad, 1600-1605 @ChristiesInc
What's story? can you decipher? In background lady shown kicking a man? Is it he who fell unconscious? Ascetic discussing with disciples
द्वादश भाव?
Bhairavi Ragini, 28th century painting from Rajasthan depicts devotee performing puja at Shiv mandir, nandi seated facing shivling.
Allahabad Museum via https://t.co/Ug2Ji9O9RL
Yogasan? some ritual?
GarbhAsana
an exhibit part of folio Bahr al hayat, Allahabad , ca1600-04
Chester Beaty Library
earlier exhibition at Freersackler gallery @FreerSackler
jo tan chhari so tan bhavi gorakh par kahna namri
The Place of Jesus’s Birth,
from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-Quds)
of Father Jerome Xavier
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Made for Prince Salim
(Future Mughal Emperor Jahangir, r.1605-27)
Allahabad, 1602-4
https://t.co/jMHc4lBnVs
Scene inside a palace with a several women & one man, perhaps Guru or Saint. Top left lady is seen touching the feet of the man, the same person being led by group of ladies. #Pahari #Kangra 18th cen work with Allahabad Museum #Art #History @DalrympleWill @JAJafri @ssharadmohhan
Sher Shah Suri (may be) in #Afghan warrior’s dress holding Zulfiqar sword in his lap. A lion surrenders to Sher Shah. I haven’t come across many works with Sher Shah as a subject. 18th cen work with Allahabad Museum #Art #History @DalrympleWill @JAJafri @dpanikkar @ssharadmohhan
1904 : 'United We Stand Divided We Fall'
The Awadh Punch (or Oudh Punch) was an Urdu satirical weekly published from Lucknow, (1877-1936)
Founder & Editor : Sajjad Husain
Pandit Ratan Nath Sarshar & Akbar Allahabadi were notable contributors.
Courtesy @Soofinama
@JournalismIndia
Siege of Cawnpore was key episode in Indian rebellion of 1857. besieged Company forces & civilians in Kanpur were unprepared for an extended siege & surrendered to rebel forces under Nana Sahib, in return for a safe passage to Allahabad.
pic is one sided view of Massacre ghat
On 1st November 1861 at #Allahabad
Sikander Begum (1818-1868), the Begum of #Bhopal( who appears in the centre of this picture) recieving "Star of India" order of #knighthood for services towards the British Empire
Among the first to receive such honour
https://t.co/U1c0TfZlsS
Early morning at the Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India,1989. Photo by Don McCullin.
#OnThisDay,1Nov1861, the first investiture of The Star Of #India, at #Allahabad(for 8 most loyal of Indian #Princes) https://t.co/C36R0Pp9v0