A Spotted Mounia and a Purple-Rumped Sunbird on flowering branches, with butterflies, a caterpillar, a beetle and a centipede, by Zayn Al-Din, from The Lady Impey Series, India, Calcutta, dated 1777
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October 25, 12:38 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 GBP
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watercolour and ink on Whatman paper, inscribed at lower left in Persian with species and artist, and in English “Sugar-Eater // Musquito Bill // Ear Scratcher or Frighter of the Ear // In the Collection of Lady Impey in Calcutta // Painted by Zayn al-Din Native of Patna 1777”, numbered at upper left '14'
53.4 by 65.7cm. (21 by 25⅞in.)
Sir Elijah Impey (1732-1809) and Lady Impey (1749-1818)
His sale, Phillips, London, 21 May, 1810
Archibald Impey (1766-1831)
Bequeathed by Mrs Sarah Impey in 1855 to the Linnaean Society, London
The Linnaean Society, London, 1855-1963
De-accessioned by the Linnean Society 1963
Sotheby’s, Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, comprising the Property of the Linnaean Society, London, 10 June, 1963, lot 48
Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760-1880, The American Federation for the Arts, New York, 1978
On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1983
S.C. Welch, Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760-1880, no.7, p.38-39
M. Fraser, Selected Works from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection of Indian and Islamic Art, London, 2015, cat.39, pp.134-7
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