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The Impey family in Calcutta, India in 1783, by Johan Zoffany. Mary's daughter, Marian Impey, is shown dancing to Indian music.
A Dwarf Flying Squirrel hanging from a Kuru Creeper, from the Impey Album, Shaikh Zayn al-Din, c. 1780, 20 7/8 in. x 29 17/32 in. (53 cm x 75 cm)

Mary, Lady Impey (née Reade; 2 March 1749 – 20 February 1818) was an English natural historian and patron of the arts in Bengal. The wife of Sir Elijah Impey, the Chief Justice of Bengal, she established a menagerie in Calcutta and commissioned Indian artists to paint the various creatures. Her paintings were later taken to England and were examined by John Latham who named several new species from them in his supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1787).

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Mary Impey

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Mary, Lady Impey (née Reade; 2 March 1749 – 20 February 1818) was an English natural historian and patron of the arts in Bengal. The wife of Sir Elijah...

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Himalayan monal

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The scientific name commemorates Lady Mary Impey, the wife of the British chief justice of Bengal, Sir Elijah Impey. It is a relatively large-sized pheasant...

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Elijah Impey

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Sir Elijah Impey (13 June 1732 – 1 October 1809) was a British judge, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal...

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Company style

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and for natural history paintings, Mary Impey, wife of Elijah Impey, who commissioned over three hundred for the Impey Album, and the Marquess Wellesley...

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Impey

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Impey may refer to: Andy Impey (born 1971), English former footballer Catherine Impey (1847–1923), British Quaker activist Chris Impey (born 25 January...

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Sheikh Zainuddin

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painting. In the late eighteenth century, he worked under Mary Impey, the wife of Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of Calcutta Supreme Court. Among the three...

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Impey Album

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The Impey Album was a collection of Company style paintings commissioned by Elijah Impey (1732–1809) and his wife Mary, née Reade (1749–1818), of the animals...

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Tower of London

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 34, 42–43 Impey & Parnell 2000, p. 42 Wilson 1998, p. 45 Impey & Parnell 2000, p. 51 Parnell 1993, p. 53 Impey & Parnell 2000, p. 44 Impey & Parnell 2000...

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Muraqqa

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who had a Rajput mother, and for natural history paintings, Mary Impey, wife of Elijah Impey, who commissioned over three hundred, and the Marquess Wellesley...

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Henry George Impey Siddons

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Henry George Impey Siddons (c. 1851 – 18 September 1936) was an Indian educationist. He was born in Indore, India and died on 18 September 1936 at Bath...

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Charlotte Murchison

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England. She was married to the nineteenth-century geologist Roderick Impey Murchison. Several times during her life, the couple travelled throughout...

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Mary Tregear

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ed. by Mary Tregear), Oriental Ceramic Society, 1980 Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum(O.R. Impey and Mary Tregear)...

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List of prisoners of the Tower of London

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severed" Impey & Parnell 2000, p. 123 Sellers 1997, p. 179 The Tower, Channel 4, 1 August 2008, retrieved 1 August 2008 Bibliography Impey, Edward; Parnell...

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Louroux Priory

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2018). Impey et Lorans 1988, p. 159-162-163. Impey et Lorans 1988, p. 162. Impey et Lorans 1988, p. 161–162. Impey et Lorans 1978, p. 164. Impey 1988,...

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Jack of plate

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Rediscovery". historicjamestowne.org. December 2013. Retrieved 2021-06-09. Impey, Edward, ed. (2022). Treasures of the Royal Armouries A Panoply of Arms...

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METI International

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Arizona, USA Chris Impey, Associate Dean, College of Science and Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona, USA Mary Lee Jensvold, Director...

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Corfe Castle

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 356, 368 Brown 1976, pp. 148–149 Yarrow 2005, p. 14 Yarrow 2005, p. 9 Impey & Parnell 2000, pp. 25–27 Saul, Nigel (2008). Richard II. New Haven, CT:...

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Cabinet of curiosities

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Maximalism Medical oddities Museum Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities Impey, MacGregor, Oliver, Arthur. The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities...

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List of rivers of Australia

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Hann Hardey Harding Harvey Hay Helena Henry Hill Hope Hotham Hunter Hutt I Impey Irwin Isdell J Jerdacuttup Johnston K Kalgan Kent King Edward King George...

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Kensington Palace

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Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022. Impey, Edward (2003). Kensington Palace: The Official Illustrated History. London:...

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Bedales School

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(born 1940), painter Frieda Hughes (born 1960), poet and artist Edward Impey (born 1962), historian, archaeologist, and museum curator Lara Johnson-Wheeler...

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Kakiemon

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Britannica". Impey (1990), 75-77 "British Museum - Kakiemon". www.britishmuseum.org. Archived from the original on May 28, 2017. Impey (1990), 75-76...

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Castle Acre Castle and town walls

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2017 Impey 2008, p. 41; Phillips 1972, p. 115 Impey 2008, p. 41 Creighton & Higham 2005, p. 79; Impey 2008, pp. 41–43 Impey 2008, pp. 30–31 Impey 2008...

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Japanese pottery and porcelain

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Smith, Harris, & Clark, 163–177 Smith, Harris, & Clark, 118–119; Ford & Impey, 46–50 The Metropolitan Museum of Art metmuseum.org "Although the roots...

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