A Great Indian Fruit Bat or Flying Fox (Pteropus Giganteus), from the Impey Album, signed by Bhawani Das, Company School, Calcutta, circa 1778-83
pen and ink, watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with bodycolour, on watermarked paper, inscribed at lower left ''In the Collection of Lady Impey at Calcutta/ Painted by (in nasta'liq script, Bhawani Das) Native of Patna'', with further Urdu identification inscription in nasta'liq script at lower left ''badur'', numbered ''163'' at upper left
image: 45.3 by 68.7 cm. (18 by 27 in.); sheet: 63.4 by 88.8 cm. (25 by 34 ⅞ in.)
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pen and ink, watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with bodycolour, on watermarked paper, inscribed at lower left ''In the Collection of Lady Impey at Calcutta/ Painted by (in nasta'liq script, Bhawani Das) Native of Patna'', with further Urdu identification inscription in nasta'liq script at lower left ''badur'', numbered ''163'' at upper left
image: 45.3 by 68.7 cm. (18 by 27 in.); sheet: 63.4 by 88.8 cm. (25 by 34 ⅞ in.)
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