Spoonbill (Platalea Leucorodia)
About the work
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.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- IS.7-1955
