ID 1031063
Lot 134 | TWO COMPANY SCHOOL STUDIES OF FISH
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 8 000
ATTRIBUTED TO SHAYKH 'ABDULLAH, CALCUTTA, INDIA, CIRCA 1800
Both studies of individual fish, opaque pigments on paper, set within a single black rule, one inscribed in pencil in the top left corner, laid down on plain album page, the verso plain, loose
Folio 14 x 16 3/8in. (35.5 x 41.8cm.)
Provenance
As per photocopied label:
'Belvedere 30th May 1800, Received from Henry Ch. Plowden Esq - account in part for some drawing done for him the sum of sicca Rupee fifty - the mark of Shaik Abdulla - who lives to the Eastward of the Tolmaghy (?) Bazar'
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