India.- Company School (19th century) A Shahin Falcon; Priamus butterfly, a pair, watercolours and gouache, heightened with gum arabic, on thin wove paper, without watermarks, each sheet approx. 230 x 180 mm. (9 x 7 in), both under glass in matching gilt frames decorated with bamboo, [19th century] Provenance: According to ink inscription on reverse of both frames: 'Commissioned by Wm. E. Gibb from a Trichinopoly artist in March 1839. Gibb served with the 14th Madras Nature Infantry from 1824 to 1853'. Exhibited: According to ink inscription on reverse of both frames: 'Exhibited at Hartnoll and Eyre Ltd., [London], 1972, Indian Painting for the British 1770-1880'.
India.- Company School (19th century) A Shahin Falcon; Priamus butterfly, a pair, watercolours and gouache, heightened with gum arabic, on thin wove paper, without watermarks, each sheet approx. 230 x 180 mm. (9 x 7 in), both under glass in matching gilt frames decorated with bamboo, [19th century] Provenance: According to ink inscription on reverse of both frames: 'Commissioned by Wm. E. Gibb from a Trichinopoly artist in March 1839. Gibb served with the 14th Madras Nature Infantry from 1824 to 1853'. Exhibited: According to ink inscription on reverse of both frames: 'Exhibited at Hartnoll and Eyre Ltd., [London], 1972, Indian Painting for the British 1770-1880'.
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