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Oudry's Painted Menagerie by Mary Morton
Oudry's Painted Menagerie by Mary Morton









Oudry

Groninger Museum, Groningen, northeastern Netherlands: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Īfter rescue from snare in Assam, where her mother was killed, 1-month old Clara was welcomed into resplendent home of Jan Albert Sichterman on grounds of VOC Chinsura Trading Post overlooking Hooghly River. Jan Albert Sichterman with his son Jan 1745 oil on canvas by Philip van Dijk (Janu– February 2, 1753) Francis I (1708 - 1765) and Maria-Theresa (1717 - 1780) in Vienna Ĭlara's first owner, Jan Albert Sichterman (September 19, 1692-January 15, 1764), officer in the East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), gave the tyke free access to his opulent house on VOC property in paradisical city of Chinsurah.They likewise detail Clara’s private audiences with: visiting Ansbach, Augsburg, Basel, Bern, Breslau, Frankfurt-am-Main, Freiberg, Hanover, Leiden, Leipzig, London, Mannheim, Munich, Nuremberg, Paris, Regensburg, Rome, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Venice, Würzburg, Zurich.My Travels with Clara acknowledges Clara (1738 - 1758), an Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) of:īiographical aspects by author Mary Tavener Holmes and illustrator Jon Cannell bear imagined reminiscences of second owner, Knabenhoe sea captain Douwemout Van der Meer. My Travels with Clara concerns Indian rhinoceros super-stardom











Oudry's Painted Menagerie by Mary Morton