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Lucknow School, circa 1790
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Lucknow School, circa 1790

An Indian sandgrouse; and A common hill partridge (illustrated)

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Lucknow School, circa 1790
An Indian sandgrouse; and A common hill partridge (illustrated)
inscribed in Urdu (lower edge)
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic
18 x 12¼in. (46 x 31½cm.) (2)
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拍品专文

The Lucknow style of natural history painting is very distinctive. The artists' drawing style derived from the late Mughal school of painting with an emphasis on the meticulous rendering of every line and feather in the bird's plumage. The landscape, with its flat ground, fading to blue in the distance, bisected by a river and with highly disctinctive diminutive trees is derived from that introduced into Lucknow painting in the 1760s by the artist Mihr Chand, who was very receptive to European ideas on the rendering of space and volume. Another western feature not quite so well observed here is the preoccupation shown with the casting of shadows.