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Black-necked Stork (Xenorhynchus asiaticus)front

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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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    Associated place
    Kolkata (place of creation)
    England (place of creation)
    Date
    1782
    Artist/maker
    Shaikh Zain ud-Din (active c. 1770 - 1785) (artist)
    Whatman (established 1740) (manufacturer)
    Associated people
    Mary, Lady Impey (1749 - 1818) (commissioner)
    Material and technique
    gouache on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 112 x 81.5 cm (height x width)
    page 95.5 x 62.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    paper
    Technique index
    painted,
    painted,
    painted,
    painted
    Object type index
    manuscript,
    painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford.
    Accession no.
    LI901.2

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