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Lucrezia Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
company picture
Can you, please, explain what a company picture is?
Here is the context (it's from a novel):
Some drawings have been found. Five of them painted by renaissance painters. "But the sixth picture, a watercolour (tribesmen dancing around a snake), was from a much later period. The expert said it wasn't his period but he thought it was something called a 'Company picture'."
Thanks!
L.
Here is the context (it's from a novel):
Some drawings have been found. Five of them painted by renaissance painters. "But the sixth picture, a watercolour (tribesmen dancing around a snake), was from a much later period. The expert said it wasn't his period but he thought it was something called a 'Company picture'."
Thanks!
L.
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are you sure about this? I've never heard of the expression "company picture" nor of an artist whose surname is 'Comapany', so I've no idea what it could mean.
- are you sure about this?
- I've never heard of the expression "company picture" nor of an artist whose surname is 'Comapany', so I've no idea what it could mean.
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are you sure about this? I've never heard of the expression "company picture" nor of an artist whose surname is 'Comapany', so I've no idea what it could mean.
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Neither have I. I also searched Google and came up with nothing.
It is mentioned in a book I am working on. It just occured to me that it may be invented, or that the meaning might be revealed later in the text. But it is just a assumption.
If anyone has any idea... share it with me!
Thanks!
It is mentioned in a book I am working on. It just occured to me that it may be invented, or that the meaning might be revealed later in the text. But it is just a assumption.
If anyone has any idea... share it with me!
Thanks!
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I was impatient...
Here is the explanation (from the book):
"A company picture is a painting commissioned by the British East India Company... A Company employee would pay a local artist to paint some local scene to send back to England." (today's postcards)
There!
Here is the explanation (from the book):
"A company picture is a painting commissioned by the British East India Company... A Company employee would pay a local artist to paint some local scene to send back to England." (today's postcards)
There!
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