A stork-billed kingfisher (Halcyon Capensis) on a flowering branch, from the Impey Album, signed by Shaykh Zayn al-Din, India, Company School, Calcutta, dated 1778
pen and ink, watercolour, laid down on later paper, inscribed and dated at lower left ''In the Collection of Lady Impey/ Painted by (in nasta'liq script, Zayn al-Din) Native of Patna 1778'', with further Urdu inscription in nasta'liq script at lower left ''darakht-e bas/ mahatra(?)''
image: 53.4 by 75.3cm; sheet: 63.3 by 86cm.
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pen and ink, watercolour, laid down on later paper, inscribed and dated at lower left ''In the Collection of Lady Impey/ Painted by (in nasta'liq script, Zayn al-Din) Native of Patna 1778'', with further Urdu inscription in nasta'liq script at lower left ''darakht-e bas/ mahatra(?)''
image: 53.4 by 75.3cm; sheet: 63.3 by 86cm.
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