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A Company School list of Lord Valentia's bird paintings, India, Calcutta, 19th century
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77 by 35cm.; 77 by 30cm.; 77 by 60cm.
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On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.
Catalogue note
This fascinating document lists the paintings commissioned by George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, 10th Viscount Valentia (1769-1844). From 1802 to 1806 Valentia travelled extensively in both India and North Africa and wrote an account of his travels, published in three volumes in London in 1809 under the title Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt in 1802-6.
A keen amateur natural historian Valentia visited many professional botanists and zoologists whilst in India and commissioned a number of natural history illustrations, mostly of birds. Two of these bird studies he gave to Lord Wellesley (later first Duke of Wellington), with whom he stayed with in Calcutta in 1803 (now in the British Library, see Archer M., Natural history drawings in the India Office Library London 1962, p.96).
Other bird studies from Lord Valentia’s collection are illustrated in Welch, S.C., Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period 1760-1880, New York 1978, nos.18a-c, pp.58-59; Hobhouse, N., Indian Paintings for British Patrons 1770-1860, London 1991, nos.11 & 12 and Leach, L.Y., Mughal and other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, Volume II, London 1995, no.7.96, pp.760-2. And sold through these rooms 11 December 1968, lot 80; 2 December 1972, lots 4 and 6; 10 April 1989, lots 5-21; 28 October 1991, lot 11; 31 May 2011, lot 115 and 27 October 2021, lots 4 and lot 10.
77 by 35cm.; 77 by 30cm.; 77 by 60cm.
Provenance
On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.
Catalogue note
This fascinating document lists the paintings commissioned by George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, 10th Viscount Valentia (1769-1844). From 1802 to 1806 Valentia travelled extensively in both India and North Africa and wrote an account of his travels, published in three volumes in London in 1809 under the title Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt in 1802-6.
A keen amateur natural historian Valentia visited many professional botanists and zoologists whilst in India and commissioned a number of natural history illustrations, mostly of birds. Two of these bird studies he gave to Lord Wellesley (later first Duke of Wellington), with whom he stayed with in Calcutta in 1803 (now in the British Library, see Archer M., Natural history drawings in the India Office Library London 1962, p.96).
Other bird studies from Lord Valentia’s collection are illustrated in Welch, S.C., Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period 1760-1880, New York 1978, nos.18a-c, pp.58-59; Hobhouse, N., Indian Paintings for British Patrons 1770-1860, London 1991, nos.11 & 12 and Leach, L.Y., Mughal and other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, Volume II, London 1995, no.7.96, pp.760-2. And sold through these rooms 11 December 1968, lot 80; 2 December 1972, lots 4 and 6; 10 April 1989, lots 5-21; 28 October 1991, lot 11; 31 May 2011, lot 115 and 27 October 2021, lots 4 and lot 10.
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ink on paper
77 by 35cm.; 77 by 30cm.; 77 by 60cm.
Provenance
On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.
Catalogue note
This fascinating document lists the paintings commissioned by George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, 10th Viscount Valentia (1769-1844). From 1802 to 1806 Valentia travelled extensively in both India and North Africa and wrote an account of his travels, published in three volumes in London in 1809 under the title Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt in 1802-6.
A keen amateur natural historian Valentia visited many professional botanists and zoologists whilst in India and commissioned a number of natural history illustrations, mostly of birds. Two of these bird studies he gave to Lord Wellesley (later first Duke of Wellington), with whom he stayed with in Calcutta in 1803 (now in the British Library, see Archer M., Natural history drawings in the India Office Library London 1962, p.96).
Other bird studies from Lord Valentia’s collection are illustrated in Welch, S.C., Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period 1760-1880, New York 1978, nos.18a-c, pp.58-59; Hobhouse, N., Indian Paintings for British Patrons 1770-1860, London 1991, nos.11 & 12 and Leach, L.Y., Mughal and other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, Volume II, London 1995, no.7.96, pp.760-2. And sold through these rooms 11 December 1968, lot 80; 2 December 1972, lots 4 and 6; 10 April 1989, lots 5-21; 28 October 1991, lot 11; 31 May 2011, lot 115 and 27 October 2021, lots 4 and lot 10.
77 by 35cm.; 77 by 30cm.; 77 by 60cm.
Provenance
On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.
Catalogue note
This fascinating document lists the paintings commissioned by George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, 10th Viscount Valentia (1769-1844). From 1802 to 1806 Valentia travelled extensively in both India and North Africa and wrote an account of his travels, published in three volumes in London in 1809 under the title Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt in 1802-6.
A keen amateur natural historian Valentia visited many professional botanists and zoologists whilst in India and commissioned a number of natural history illustrations, mostly of birds. Two of these bird studies he gave to Lord Wellesley (later first Duke of Wellington), with whom he stayed with in Calcutta in 1803 (now in the British Library, see Archer M., Natural history drawings in the India Office Library London 1962, p.96).
Other bird studies from Lord Valentia’s collection are illustrated in Welch, S.C., Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period 1760-1880, New York 1978, nos.18a-c, pp.58-59; Hobhouse, N., Indian Paintings for British Patrons 1770-1860, London 1991, nos.11 & 12 and Leach, L.Y., Mughal and other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, Volume II, London 1995, no.7.96, pp.760-2. And sold through these rooms 11 December 1968, lot 80; 2 December 1972, lots 4 and 6; 10 April 1989, lots 5-21; 28 October 1991, lot 11; 31 May 2011, lot 115 and 27 October 2021, lots 4 and lot 10.
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