A Crested Drongo, Calcutta, Company School, circa 1800, collector's seal in Persian on verso: 'The Right Honourable Lord Bahadur Viscount Valentia, 1217 [1802-3]', gouache on paper, with a watermark of a fleur-de-lys above a coat-of-arms with 3 diagonal lines, a knotted 'W' below, inscribed at the top left in nasta'liq script in black ink Bhujunggah and below and lower right in pencil, Lanius fortficatus, no. 6, glazed and framed, painting 46.8 x 27.5cm. Viscount Valentia, after serving in the British Army until 1790, traveled to India in 1802, accompanied by Henry Salt, his draughtsman and secretary, returning to England in 1806. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1796 and was a member of Parliament from 1808-12. He formed a large natural history collection and a collection of Egyptian antiquities at Arley Castle, Staffordshire.For other bird drawings made for Lord Valentia, see Welch 1976, no.26; Welch 1978-I, nos.18a-c; Sotheby’s, London, 31 May 2011, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part Two, lot 115. See also Sothebys Sven Ghalin Collection Lots 36 a drawing of a bustard, and lot 37 a watercolour of a crow-pheasant both made for Lord Valentia, .Please refer to department for condition report