A pair of Pintail Ducks

细节

Calcutta School, 1881
A pair of Pintail Ducks
with inscription and date 'J.962.Pintail Duck shot 9 Nov: 81. just after migrating to India after breeding./This is a femail Pintail that for some reason could not migrate with the/rest at the usual season April and remained through the hot season and rains till/I shot it on 24 Augt. The speculum on wing was exactly as above represented./J.962. Pintail Duck (female). Wazirgunge. 24 augt 81.!' (lower centre)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic, one with scratching out
19¼ x 24 in. (48.9 x 61 cm.)

来源

Sir Henry Leland Harrison.

注意事项

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拍场告示

The catalogue entry should read, Sir Henry Leland Harrison was elected as a member of the Board of Revenue in 1890 and not 1990.

拍品专文

The inscription on the present watercolour and that on lot 337a is by Sir Henry Leland Harrison (1837-1892). Harrison went out to Bengal in 1860 for a career in the Indian civil service. He rose to be the Commissioner of Police and the chairman of the Corporation of Calcutta between 1881-1890. Elected as a member of the Board of Revenue in 1990, he died of cholera two years later.