AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A COMPANY SCHOOL ALBUM
A Study of a Small Buttonquail, Turnix sylvaticus
Barrackpore, India, c. 1803
Watercolour on J Whatman paper
Barrackpore, India, c. 1803
Watercolour on J Whatman paper
40 x 26cm.
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Collector's seal on verso in Persian: 'The Right Honourable Lord Bahadur Viscount Valentia, 1217 (1802-3)'.
Literature
For other examples of Viscount Valentia bird studies see:
Hobhouse, N., Indian Paintings for British Patrons 1770-1860, London 1991, nos.11 & 12, Leach, L.Y., Mughal and other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, Volume II, London, 1995, no.7.96, pp.760-2,
Welch, S.C., Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period 1760-1880, New York, 1978, nos.18 a-c, pp.58-59,