I feel like sometimes random people just change your life in so many ways, like the girl who gave me a film camera in 2003 when I visited Kolkata, India for the first time. i haven't spoken to her in 20 years, but she gave me the gift of having my memories in still film photographs for the rest of my life
c1800 CE #CompanyPainting from #Kolkata#Bengal likely to have been made by an #Artist commissioned by William Roxburgh, who became the 1st Superintendent of the #Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1793
Over the next 20 years, he assembled over 2500 #Paintings & copies were made for his #EastIndiaCompany friends like Lord Wellesley
From the collection of Toby Falk sold by Christies on 27th Oct 2023 for £60,500
The bronze sculpture of War on the Lord Roberts Monument in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park. The monument was unveiled in 1916, just two years after the death of Field Marshal Earl Roberts. Created by Henry Poole, it's a copy of an original statue of Harry Bates which was erected in Calcutta in 1898. There's also another smaller version erected in 1924 on Horse Guards Parade in London.
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