Oudry's Painted Menagerie by Mary Morton

Souvenir of Clara, with brief biography, sold by her second owner, Douw Moot van der Meer, for exhibitions also included in souvenir is portrait of Douw Moot van der Meer (bottom, center).ġ747 etching by H. Rijksmuseum, Room 29 Museum Square, Amsterdam South, Amsterdam, North Holland Province, northwest Netherlands: Public Domain, via Rikjsmuseum Public Domain via Rijksmuseum 'The Trading Post of the Dutch East India Company in Hooghly, Bengal' 1665 oil on canvas by Hendrik van Schuylenburgh (ca.1620-1689), commissioned by Pieter Sterthemius (1618-April 24, 1676) in year he became director of VOC Hooghly-Chinsura Trading Post 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