Green Parrot

Made around 1820 by an Indian artist for a British civil servant working in Calcutta (now Kolkata), this bird is painted with precision and brilliant colour. It appears to be the same type as Tuti, hero of the Mughal Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), technically a Lord Derby’s parakeet; this one has a black beak, showing she is female. Because it can talk, the parrot often appears in Indo-Iranian tales as a messenger of moral wisdom.

Printed on 200 gsm museum-quality matte paper from the museum’s high-resolution open-access image, with a white border so nothing of the original is cropped. Available from A4 up to 70 × 100 cm, or as a digital download to print yourself.

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