Property of a Lady
A sarus crane (grus antigone) standing in a flat river landscape, India, Lucknow, Company School, circa 1780
Auction Closed
April 30, 03:48 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
watercolour, pen and ink, heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic on paper, laid down on stout green paper, mount attached with coloured rules, Urdu inscriptions in black nasta'liq centre right and lower left, inscribed in pencil '38' centre right edge and 'Ardea ex grus familae' upper edge, framed
63.8 by 47.4cm.
Major General Claude Martin (1735-1800)
Arthur Jeffries Gallery, London
From whom acquired in 1956 by the Hon. Michael Astor (1916-80)
Thence by inheritance to the present owner
inscriptions
saras
‘Indian crane’
The sarus crane's habitat is marsh land, feeding on grass shoots and insects. Their nesting season is from July to December. The sarus crane pair for life and are devoted to each other. They have been known to pine and die of grief if one of the pair is lost.
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