Sharad Mohan<p>'Two Caparisoned Elephants' from the Louisa Parlby Album, c1795 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CompanyPainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CompanyPainting</span></a> from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Murshidabad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Murshidabad</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> sold by Sotheby's on March 20th for $53,340<br>Louisa was the wife of Col. James Parlby, an Engineer with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EastIndiaCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EastIndiaCompany</span></a> at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bengal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bengal</span></a></p><p>The 'B' on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elephant</span></a> may refer to Edward Eyre Burgess, a Judge at Murshidabad in 1772 AD who travelled around with pomp & ceremony</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BritishInIndia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishInIndia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndianHeritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndianHeritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndianHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artoftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artoftheday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>