A Painted Stork (Mycteria Leucocephala) eating a Snail, from the Impey Album, signed by Shaykh Zayn al-Din, Company School, Calcutta, dated 1781
pen and ink, watercolour on paper, numbered ''130'' at upper left and upper right, inscribed at lower left with the measurements of the stork, and with Urdu identification in nasta'liq script ''jankhal'', further inscribed and dated ''In the Collection of Lady Impey at Calcutta/ Painted by (in nasta'liq script, Zayn al-Din) Native of Patna 1781”
image: 54.3 by 75.3 cm. (21 ⅜ by 29 ⅝ in.); sheet: 61 by 82.8 cm. (24 by 32 ⅝ in.)
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