Digital Rare Book:
Brahmanism and Hinduism or Religious Thought and Life in India
By Monier-Monier Williams
Published by Macmillan & Co., New York - 1891

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Image:
Paintings; Watercolour on English paper, A Brahmin and his wife, Madras, ca. 1785

This is a page from the Boileau Album. The album contains 42 Company paintings probably made by an artist from Thanjavur (Tanjore) living in Madras. Painting in Madras at this early period appears to have been linked mainly to individual patronage. John Peter Boileau commissioned this album. Boileau, whose ancestors were French, served as a member of the Madras Civil Service from 1765 to 1785. He probably had the album made to take back home to England when he retired.

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