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File:Portrait of East India Company official.jpg

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Summary

William Fullerton of Rosemount, EIC Surgeon in Patna, and Mayor of Calcutta, receiving a visitor, attended by servants with fly-whisks (chauri), 1764.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Dip Chand (artist)
Title
William Fullerton of Rosemount, EIC Surgeon in Patna, and Mayor of Calcutta, receiving a visitor, attended by servants with fly-whisks (chauri), 1764.
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. Picture labelled "W.F. 1764", and believed to depict William Fullerton of Rosemount, who joined the East India Company's service in 1744 and was second surgeon in Calcutta in 1751. He was present at the siege of Calcutta in 1756 and became mayor of Calcutta in 1757. In 1763 Fullerton became a surgeon to the Patna Agency. He was the only Englishman to survive the massacre of the English during the war with Mir Kasim of Murshidabad. An excellent linguist, he clearly mixed with Indians more than was common and had one or more Indian bibis (mistresses). Depicted receiving a visitor, and attended by servants with fly-whisks.
Date between circa 1760 and circa 1764
date QS:P571,+1760-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1760-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1764-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(made)
Medium watercolor
medium QS:P186,Q22915256
Dimensions height: 26.2 cm (10.3 in); width: 22.6 cm (8.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,26.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,22.6U174728
Source/Photographer https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O16731/painting-portrait-of-east-india-company/

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William Fullerton of Rosemount, EIC surgeon in Patna and mayor of Calcutta, receiving a visitor, attended by servants with fly-whisks, 1764. Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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