Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Architectural & Garden a publisher of unlicensed Bibles

a publisher of unlicensed Bibles who had made a fortune in the South Sea Bubble

There are some larger scuffs where the leather is coming away though the overall condition We have given the boot a light oiling with an appropriate oil to soften and preserve it

each in individual ceramic pots and captioned below (red lake

There are no tears or rips and the overall condition

Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Architectural & Garden a publisher of unlicensed BiblesOrigin: Bengal, India Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Formerly of the Estate of Henry G. Plowden Esq. Date: c. 1800 The Works: 12. 25 x 15 each In Frames: 20 x 22. 25 each The wonderfully realised pair of Calcutta School Studies in watercolour on paper of Indian Fauna; one depicting a native frog and the other a native fish each surviving from Bengal in India at the turn of the eighteenth century and each presented framed and glazed in gilded frames