The zither player

Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1876

Height:

29.8 cm  (11 3/4 in.)

Width:

25.2 cm  (9 15/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor on cream wove paper

Description

Two friends of the artist - Max Schnitt and William Sartain - seated at a table. Schnitt plays a zither.

People as subjects

Sartain, William (1843-1924)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Zither [3729]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

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) 283dr91. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1706