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Bhawani Das, Company School
GREAT INDIAN FRUIT BAT, ca. 1778-83
(from the Impey Album)
Pen and ink, watercolour with gum arabic on watermarked paper

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Unidentified artist of the Company School, Kolkata, India
ASIAN LESSER FALSE VAMPIRE BAT, ca. 1790-1814
Watercolour