Military manoeuvres

Moynan, Richard Thomas (1856-1906)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1891
Height:
148.0 cm  (58 1/4 in.)
Width:
240.0 cm  (94 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Ireland
    [Museum inv. no.: NGI. 4364]

Description

A group of boys march, pretending to be soldiers. Some play real or pretend instruments: a penny whistle, a keyless flute or fife, a biscuit tin and a bucket serving as drums, saucepan lids as cymbals, a metal coffee pot blown through the spout as a cornet or trumpet, and a second "trumpet" in the form of a folded paper tube.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Penny whistle [4026]
Fife [3945]
Cymbals [2451]
Trumpet [4446]
Cornet [3860]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Boydell, Barra. Music and paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin: The National Gallery of Ireland, 1985) 82. ISBN 0903162229. RILM 1985-00222.

RIdIM record id

3165