Posted on: 10 February 2013

Physician taking pulse; by a Delhi painter - 1825

Watercolour

Credit: Wellcome Library, London


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So beautiful watercolor, thank you, very much!

Kaviraj checking pulse Company paintings' were produced by Indian artists for Europeans living and working in the Indian subcontinent, especially British employees of the East India Company. They represent a fusion of traditional Indian artistic styles with conventions and technical features borrowed from western art. Some Company paintings were specially commissioned, while others were virtually mass-produced and could be purchased in bazaars.