A Crimson Horned Pheasant (Tragopan Satyra), from the Impey Album, signed by Ram Das, Company School, Calcutta, circa 1778-83

pen and ink, watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with bodycolour, on 'J. Whatman' watermarked paper, numbered ''24'' at upper left, inscribed at lower left ''In the Collection of Lady Impey at Calcutta/ Painted by (in nasta'liq script, Ram Das) Native of Patna'', further Urdu identification inscription in nasta'liq script at lower left ''muhnal'', later identified in pencil as ''Horned Turkey'' in the lower left margin of the mount

image: 70.5 by 52.3 cm. (27 ¾ by 20 ⅝ in.); sheet: 83.8 by 62 cm. (32 ⅞ by 24 ⅜ in.)

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