Another stick insect. By a Chinese artist from Penang?, c.1820. Inscribed in ink: ‘From Penang 1820. Phasma gracilis from Penang. Apr. 1820 F.H.’ Water-colour; 215 by 275 mm.
A very ugly fish, sketched from above, and fully painted in side view.
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A very ugly fish, sketched from above, and fully painted in side view. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Inscribed in ink: ‘Fig. 1st. Laphinus spinosus.’ Pen and ink and wash, and water-colour; 279 by 218 mm.
A horned fish. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Inscribed in ink: ‘Fig. 2. Ostracion Cornutus. From a Specimen in possession of Lady Hastings. View beneath. View above. Profile.’ Pen and ink and wash, and water-colour; 275 by 218 mm.
A bird on a twig. Artist(s): Sita Ram (fl. c.1810-1822)
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A bird on a twig. By Sita Ram, c.1820. Inscribed in pencil: ‘Probably a species of Glasrola?’ and in ‘kaithi’: ‘anandania.’ Water-colour; 206 by 248 mm.