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Black-necked Stork (Xenorhynchus asiaticus)
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Description
In another of Shaikh Zain ud-Din’s late commissions for Lady Impey, this treatment of a Black-necked Stork follows on from his earlier version dated the year before [LI901.16]. In the present work the bird is allowed to stand upright, making for a more graceful composition, and the rendering of its iridescent multi-coloured plumage is more subtle and effective. The painting has suffered some mutilation along its top edge as a result of later mishandling.
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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
- 1782
- 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 95.5 x 62.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford.
- Accession no.
- LI901.2
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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