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A Green-winged Teal
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This colored drawing speaks to an Indian tradition of depicting waterfowl that seems to have begun with the illustrated Baburnamas of the late sixteenth century and that precedes the colonial-period Company paintings of flora and fauna on unpainted grounds.
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionCredit lineA Green-winged Teal. ca. 1730. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art. CC0.
