Telemachus plays and sings to the shepherd in Egypt

Pinelli, Bartolomeo (1781-1835)

Item type:

drawing

Height:

46.0 cm  (18 1/8 in.)

Width:

58.8 cm  (23 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

Pen and black ink with brush and brown and gray wash with traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper laid down on board

Description

Telemachus seated on a rock holding a wind instrument (shawm or oboe type reed clearly visible). One of a series of watercolors intended for engraving but never done.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Shawm [4258]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Joachim, Harold. Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980). No. 2G11

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI Inventory of Music Iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford. New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987. 373dr95. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1665