A study of a wading bird Company School, Calcutta, circa 1800
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Company School, Calcutta, circa 1800
Company School, Calcutta, circa 1800
410 x 275 mm.
Footnotes
The seal impression is that of George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, 9th Viscount Valentia (1770-1844). He was born in December 1770, educated at Stanford, Rugby and B.N.C., Oxford. After a spell in the British Army, until 1790, he went to India (1802), attended by Henry Salt, his draughtsman and secretary, returning to England in 1806. He published Voyages and Travels in India, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt in 1802-6. He was a member of Parliament from 1808 to 1812, and succeeded to the Irish peerage as second Earl of Mountnorris on his father’s death. There are two portraits of his in the National Portrait Gallery. He died on 23 July 1844. See C. E. Buckland, Dictionary of Indian Biography, 1968, pp. 433-34.