LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pencil, ink, and watercolor with gum arabic heightened with touches of white on English paper

Size Notes:

Folio

Description:

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Markings:

watermarked 'J Whatman'; Inscribed in the bottom left corner: Honest Face / In the Collection of Lady Impey in Calcutta / Painted by (Zayn al-Din) Native of Patna 1778; further inscribed in Persian and Urdu with the name of the bird; numbered 58 in pencil in the upper left corner; verso with Sir Elijah Impey's seal.

Provenance:

Sir Elijah and Lady Impey ,Phillips, London, 21 May 1810,Christie's, London, 5 June 2007, lot 228,Sotheby's, New York, 19 June 2009, lot 129,Simon Ray Ltd, London, October 2009