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Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
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Description
Standing up to a metre tall, the Grey Heron is a wading bird found throughout Europe and Asia including the Indian subcontinent. It feeds in shallow water on fish, frogs and insects. This specimen in Lady Impey’s possession is identified as anjan, one of several vernacular names for the bird. As in some other paintings by Shaikh Zain ud-Din of the larger waders, an artful undulation of the long neck allows him to accommodate it within the composition.
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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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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 86.4 x 63.4 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.
- LI901.13
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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