
A Female Rosefinch (Carpodacus Erythrinus, hindi: Lal Tuti), Company School, Calcutta, India, early 19th century,
gouache on English blue tinted paper, framed. Provenance: Formerly in the collection ofthe ornithologist T. H. Newman, who amassed a large archive of bird images, including prints, watercolours and Company School paintings. For a note on the house sparrow, see Salim Ali, The Book of Indian Birds, Bombay, 1972, p.129.