Spoonbill (Platalea Leucorodia)
Watercolour
ca. 1780 (painted)
ca. 1780 (painted)
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Colonel Claude Martin was a Frenchman living in Lucknow in the late 18th century. He arrived in the city in 1775 and was appointed Superintendent of the arsenal of the Nawab of Lucknow. During his residence in the city he collected on a grand scale, and across a wide range of European and Indian objects and paintings. This depiction of a Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) by an unknown Lucknow artist belonged to his large set of natural history paintings of the kind bought or commissioned by other European collectors at the same time.
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Title | Spoonbill (Platalea Leucorodia) (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on paper |
Brief description | Painting; watercolour, Spoonbill (Platalea Leucorodia), Lucknow, ca. 1780 |
Physical description | A painting of a white spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) on the bank of a stream, the bird itself almost comprising the whole image. The treatment of the landscape with small rounded bushes and clumps of grass is typical of Lucknow painting in the late eighteenth century. |
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Credit line | Given by Mr Arthur Jeffries |
Object history | Part of a set of bird paintings made for Colonel Claude Martin (1735-1810) at Lucknow. |
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Summary | Colonel Claude Martin was a Frenchman living in Lucknow in the late 18th century. He arrived in the city in 1775 and was appointed Superintendent of the arsenal of the Nawab of Lucknow. During his residence in the city he collected on a grand scale, and across a wide range of European and Indian objects and paintings. This depiction of a Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) by an unknown Lucknow artist belonged to his large set of natural history paintings of the kind bought or commissioned by other European collectors at the same time. |
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Accession number | IS.7-1955 |
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Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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