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 1 Feb 2013 Rare Paintings
Bayaderes de Pondichery - 1850
By Himely, Sigismond (1801-1872)

Travel around the world through the seas of India and China in the corvette La Favorite execute his Majesty during the years 1830, 1831, 1832 under the command of M. Laplace.

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 27 Jan 2013 Rare Photographs
A young boy holding up a piece of uranium ore.

My 1947 Partition Day films contain, what I believe is the first filmed CIA mission by Nicol Smith. The communists were paying lots of money for uranium ore; here is a young boy holding up uranium. This is two years before the Russians had their fir... Read More
 8 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
'A Native of Garwhal', in the attitude of moving forward, 1908.

Oil on canvas by Gertrude Ellen Burrard (later Lady Gertrude) (1860-1928), 1908.

Gertrude Ellen Burrard accompanied her husband Sidney Burrard, an Indian Army Officer, around the Indian subcontinent during his time as Superinte... Read More
 8 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Hasan, our bheestie (water-carrier) at Simla, 1908.

Oil on canvas by Gertrude Ellen Burrard (later Lady Gertrude) (1860-1928), 1908.

Gertrude Ellen Burrard accompanied her husband Sidney Burrard, an Indian Army Officer, around the Indian subcontinent during his time as Superintendent on the... Read More
 8 Jan 2013 Rare Paintings
Ganda Singh, a Sikh messenger of Colonel Wilmer's Topographical No. 14 Survey Party, 1894.

Oil on canvas by Gertrude Ellen Burrard (later Lady Gertrude) (1860-1928), 1894.

Gertrude Ellen Burrard accompanied her husband Sidney Burrard, an Indian Army Officer, around the Indian subcontinent d... Read More
 6 Aug 2012
A Bengali woman going to worship with flowers and water.
Lucknow, 1815.

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 6 Aug 2012 Rare Paintings
Painting; Watercolour on ivory, An Indian lady seated by a window against a red blind and holding a flower, Delhi, ca.1860.

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 28 Sep 2010 Rare Photographs
Madaria Faqir, Eastern Bengal - 1860

Half-length portrait of a Muslim ascetic against a plain background taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s. This dervish or 'faqir' was a member of the Madaria order of Sufis who followed the saint Shaikh Sayyid Badi-u'd-din Qutb al-Madar. Born... Read More
 2 Sep 2010 Rare Photographs
Studio portrait of a group of Muslim men, Bombay - 1867.

Portrait of five men and a boy from Mumbai, taken by Hurrichund Chintamon and shown in the 1867 Paris Exhibition. This photograph is from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections; one of a series of ethnographical photographs commi... Read More