Lady Impey’s Indian Bird Paintings
(from 16th Oct 2012 until 14th Apr 2013)Explore remarkable studies of Indian and exotic birds commissioned by Lady Impey around 1780.
Black-necked Stork (Xenorhynchus asiaticus)
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Description
This tall, heavy-billed wading bird (identified here as luhajang) is found in various regions of the Indian subcontinent, including Assam, and throughout Southeast Asia. The dark iridescent blue-green-black tones of its head, neck, secondary flight feathers and tail are here densely rendered by Shaikh Zain ud-Din, and the bird’s long neck is compressed in a tight bend. Another, more successful attempt at this bird was made by him the following year [LI901.2].
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › east India › West Bengal › Kolkata (place of creation)Europe › United Kingdom › England (place of creation)
- Date
- 1781
- Artist/maker
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Shaikh Zain ud-Din (active c. 1770 - 1785) (artist)Whatman (established 1740) (manufacturer)
- Associated people
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Mary, Lady Impey (1749 - 1818) (commissioner)Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, first Baronet (1815 - 1900) (owner)
- Material and technique
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 112 x 81.5 cm (height x width)
page 83.8 x 60.1 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford.
- Accession no.
- LI901.16
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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