A Crimson Horned Pheasant (Tragopan Satyra), from the Impey Album
Ram Das
(Indian)
1778–1783
Medium/TechniquePen and ink, watercolor with gum arabic
DimensionsHeight x width: 84 × 62 cm (33 1/16 × 24 7/16 in.)
Credit LineCharles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund
Accession number2022.195
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsNumbered ''24'' at upper left, inscribed at lower left ''In the Collection of Lady Impey at Calcutta/ Painted by (in nasta'liq script, Ram Das) Native of Patna'', further Urdu identification inscription in nasta'liq script at lower left ''muhnal'', later identified in pencil as ''Horned Turkey'' in the lower left margin of the mountProvenance1778/1782, made for Sir Elijah Impey (b. 1732 – d. 1809) and Lady Mary Reade Impey (b. 1749 – d. 1818), Kolkata and London; May 21, 1810, Impey estate sale, Phillips, London, probably unsold or bought back by the family and passed to Elijah Impey’s daughter-in-law, Sarah Proby Impey (b. 1776 – d. 1841), London; 1855, bequeathed by Sarah Impey through her nephew, Proby Cautley (b. 1802 – d. 1871) to the Linnean Society of London; June 10, 1963, Linnean Society sale, Sotheby’s, London, to Anthony Hobson (b. 1921 – d. 2014), London; June 10, 2015, Hobson sale, Christie’s, London, lot 61, to Carlton Rochell, New York; October 27, 2021, Carlton Rochell collection sale, Sotheby’s, London, lot 16, to the MFA. (Accession date: April 20, 2022)
Shaykh Zayn al-Din
1778
Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840
mid-19th century
