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White Ibis (Threskiornis melanocephala)
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Description
A wading bird thriving in marshy wetlands, the Oriental White Ibis (or Black-headed Ibis) is widely found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It has white or greyish plumage and a black head and legs. Shaikh Zain ud-Din’s study of this bird (identified here as buz) is among the last phase of commissions that he carried out for Lady Impey in 1782, shortly before the Impeys departed for England early in the following year.
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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 87.5 x 62.6 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.
- LI901.11
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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