The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth), by French painter James Tissot (1876). Tate Britain.

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Wealthy Bengalies at Calcutta vied with each other, invited nautch girls-courtesans, from faraway Lucknow & Delhi, for entertainment
"Raja Nob Kishen’s Nautch Party at Calcutta” news appeared in Calcutta Gazette of 20-10-1814(?)
👇c1825, painting by Charles D’Oyly

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Illustration to a Bengali proverb ‘As like as two pigeons’. Watercolour and tin paint, Calcutta c1830; V & A Museum.

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È Natale ogni volta che
permetti a Dio di amare gli altri attraverso di te.

- Madre Teresa di Calcutta -



🎨 Giotto di Bondone

Natività di Gesù, 1303-1304

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A horse-drawn two-wheeled Ekka with canopy
Drawing; watercolour
Company School
Calcutta,
c.1885

https://t.co/Jaxjc3idfE
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Not acceptable, on a at least!
The Smoking King of Rats & his Rat Courtiers Torment a Captured (for eating a Prawn?) in this c1880 AD painting from & now at UK.

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Kali Puja in Calcutta, October 1841, British oil painting

This quite matches to what the robbers of Valmiki Pratibha say,

“আজ রাতে ধুম হবে ভারি,
নিয়ে আয় কারণ বারি,
জ্বেলে দে মশালগুলো,
মনের মতন পুজো দেব,
নেচে নেচে ঘুরে ঘুরে!”

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🐍 The game birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon
Calcutta, A.O. Hume and Marshall[1879]-1881.
https://t.co/2TnZO18LSu

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The comings and goings outside Government house, Calcutta. Judiciously observed by the Adjutant Storks.
https://t.co/5fZnXtvyQ0

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The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth), by French painter James Tissot (1876). Tate Britain.

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2/2
Il sentimento più brutto? Il rancore.
Il regalo più bello? Il perdono.
Quello indispensabile? La famiglia

Madre Teresa di Calcutta

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🐍 The game birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon
Calcutta, A.O. Hume and Marshall[1879]-1881.
https://t.co/2TnZO18LSu

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Non è tanto quello che diamo,
ma quanto amore mettiamo nel
dare.

Madre Teresa di Calcutta





🌟

Leonardo da Vinci "Ultima cena"

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1.The less seen Howrah side,Shalkia Ghat,a view of the opposite from Respondia Walk with a north wester coming on.Plate 7,James Baillie Fraser's 'Views of Calcutta,its Environs'.Fraser (1783-1856),acquaint coloured

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🐍 The game birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon
Calcutta, A.O. Hume and Marshall[1879]-1881.
https://t.co/2TnZO18LSu

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summers are cruel!
The last Ipomea flower on my hedge of died today. Sad. Now, I can only admire this flower via this c1800 AD up for sale by on 30th March.

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This one from a private collection is my favourite William Prinsep painting. A brilliant, uber-realistic depiction of a powerful Norwester or Kalboishakhi on the in The painting is from 1819-21.

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'A (Dancing) Girl & two Musicians'.
Early 19th century from (?) now at
These paintings give a fascinating insight into life & times of that era.

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