'Great Hornbill', Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, recto: ca. 1540; verso: ca. 1615–20, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm), Codices, Painting by Mansur (active ca. 1589–1626), The emperor Jahangir’s memoirs record many of the animals he encountered while on his annual peregrinations, and the reasons he wanted studies of them to be painted. While we do not have such notes for this painting, we can imagine that Jahangir was intrigued by the creature’s size, with a wingspan of up to five feet, and by the loud droning noise it emitted, audible a mile away
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