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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
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?
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
When Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was going to Britain to see universities ,His Friend Maulvi Imdad Ali was going for Hajj pilgrimage.
At that time Akbar Allahabadi wrote this verse:
"Sidhaare.n Sheikh Kaabe ko ham Inglistaaan dekhenge
Wo dekhen Ghar khuda ka ham khuda ki shaan dekhenge
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
#Onthisday 23 October, Anand Narain Mulla Lakhnavi was born in 1901. He was an Urdu poet and judge of Allahabad High Court. Mulla sahab was MP (Lok Sabha) from Lucknow from 1967-1970. ab aur is ke sivā chāhte ho kyā 'mullā'
ye kam hai us ne tumheñ muskurā ke dekh liyā
till 23-6-57 siege continued, on 24 & 25 June, Nana Sahib sent offer signed by himself. During next 24 hours, there was no bombardment by Nana's forces.
General Wheeler decided to surrender, in return for a safe passage to Allahabad. on 27 June 1857 unfortunate happened.
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.
The bank of the Ganges below Kara (Near Allahabad ,U.P.).
8 September 1803
Artist: Salt, Henry (1780-1827)
Medium: Pen and ink on paper
#Kara was major seat of governance in North India ,before Awadh and Allahabad cities developed.
Source : https://t.co/yORuQKVmYx
1875 :: Lord Vishnu In Kurmavatara (Tortoise Incarnation ) Supporting Mandar Parvat ( Mount Mandar ) During Samudra Manthan , Garhwa, Allahabad District
( Photo - @britishlibrary )
#OnThisDay,1Nov1861, the first investiture of The Star Of #India, at #Allahabad(for 8 most loyal of Indian #Princes) https://t.co/C36R0Pp9v0