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Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo)
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Description
The migratory Demoiselle Crane is found over a wide area, from the Black Sea to northeast China. Commonly wintering in north India and Pakistan, it was often mentioned in poetry and folklore. Beautiful women, for example, might be compared to this bird for its slender, graceful form. This accomplished painting is ascribed to Bhawani Das, one of the two Hindu painters who worked for Lady Impey together with the Muslim Shaikh Zain ud-Din. Bhawani Das too is described in the inscription as a ‘Native of Patna’.
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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
- c. 1780
- Artist/maker
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Bhawani Das (active c. 1780) (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 89.5 x 61.5 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.
- LI901.10
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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