IN AN INDIAN GARDEN: The Carlton Rochell Collection of Company School Paintings

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A Malabar Giant Squirrel (Ratufa Indica) in an Almond Tree, from the Impey Album, signed by Shaykh Zayn al-Din, Company School, Calcutta, dated 1778

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October 27, 10:37 AM GMT

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200,000 - 300,000 GBP

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pen and ink, watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with bodycolour, on 'J Whatman' watermarked paper, inscribed and dated at lower left ''Mountain Rat/ Hindoostaunee Almond/ In the Collection of Lady Impey in Calcutta/ Painted by (in nasta'liq script, Zayn al-Din) Native of Patna 1778'', with further Urdu inscription in nasta'liq script at lower left ''ghua(?)/ pahari chuha/ darakht-e badam-e hindi'', the reverse bearing the stamp of Sir Elijah Impey

image: 53.1 by 74.7 cm. (20 ⅞ by 29 ⅜ in.); sheet: 63.6 by 87.2 cm. (25 by 34 ⅜ in.)

Sir Elijah Impey (1732-1809) and Lady Impey (1749-1818)
His estate sale, Phillips, New Bond Street, London, 21 May 1810
The Property of the Linnean Society of London, bequeathed by Mrs Sarah Impey in 1855
Sotheby's, London, 10 June 1963, lot 9
Edwin Binney, 3rd, San Diego (1925-86)
Private collection, Switzerland

Mildred and W.G. Archer, Indian Painting for the British 1770-1880, Oxford, 1955, pl.21, fig.45
Stuart Cary Welch, Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period 1760-1880, American Federation of Arts, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1978, p.36, no.6
William Dalrymple, ed., Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, The Wallace Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, 2019, no.15