Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Art & Sculpture and even the conveniences of

and even the conveniences of life

There was also 'Continent tableaux wagons' of 1877 whereby each wagon had a country designated to it as its theme so for example lions would adorn the African wagons and eagles the American wagons

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Rosewood gradually became popular by the 1830s and in the 1840s it was widely used

both inscribed New York and with postally used stamps with postmark to one inscribed Liverpool and dated 1904

Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Art & Sculpture and even the conveniences ofOrigin: Bengal, India Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Formerly of the Estate of Henry G. Plowden Esq. Date: c. 1800 The Works: 12. 25 x 15 each In Frames: 20 x 22. 25 each The wonderfully realised pair of Calcutta School Studies in watercolour on paper of Indian Fauna; one depicting a native frog and the other a native fish each surviving from Bengal in India at the turn of the eighteenth century and each presented framed and glazed in gilded frames