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A PAINTING OF A GOOSANDER (MERGUS MERGANSER)
Lucknow, Company School, 19th century
Opaque watercolor on paper.
14 1/2 x 21 3/8 in. (36.8 x 54.3 cm)
$6,000 - 8,000

Major James Nathaniel Rind (d. 1814) was in India from 1778 until
1801, serving with the 18th Native Infantry. He was employed on
survey duty from 1785-89 with headquarters in Calcutta. Many of the
natural history drawings from his collection, including the present lot,
were sold at Sotheby’s, London, 13 July 1971, lots 1-48.

Compare with a Lucknow study of a Cotton Pygmy Goose, most
likely from the same atelier, in Simon Ray, Indian and Islamic Works
of Art, London April, 2007, no. 66. Tan states, ‘The landscape, with
its flat receding ground and highly distinctive diminutive shrubs, is
derived from that introduced into Lucknow painting by the artist Mihr
Chand, who was very receptive of European ideas on the rendering
of space and volume.’

Provenance
Collection of James Nathaniel Rind
Mrs. S. Richardson and Mrs. S. M. Norman
Sotheby’s, London, 13 July 1971, lot 20
Sotheby’s, London, 9 October 2013, lot 206 (part)
Private US Collection

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