C19th Anglo-Indian Company School Botanical Painting "Sunflowers”

Anglo-Indian Company School 
Botanical Illustration "Syngenesia Frustranca" (Helianthus Annaus)
Inscribed in ink lower left
Watercolour and gouache on laid paper 
19th Century 

Measures:-
34 cm (high) x 25.8 cm (wide) (Image) 
43 cm (high) x 37 cm (wide) (Framed)  

A beautiful and accomplished 19th Century 'Company School' botanical illustration of 'Common Sunflowers'. Although sunflowers originated in the Americas and Caribbean, by the 19th Century the species had been widely cultivated.

For another Company School watercolour of sunflowers, possibly by an artist whose name was "Siraje Mukki", see Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 19600271.