Offering of the Day: One page from an album of field-sketches of Indian and Sri Lankan birds, c. 1806

 Samuel Daniell (1775-1811)

Paradise Fly Catcher

12 3/4 x 13 inches

Inscribed upper left: Natural Size

Inscribed lower right: Paradise Fly Catcher

The oblong folio contains 19 watercolor drawings mounted on blue paper with contemporary

and later pencil annotations

$250,000 for the entire album