Boys playing around a tree

Unknown (British)

Wedgwood (English ceramics manufactory, 1759 to the present)


Item type:
decorative art
Date of creation:
1769-1780
Height:
17.3 cm  (6 13/16 in.)
Width:
22.4 cm  (8 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
jasperware pottery

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    The Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection of Old Wedgwood[Museum inv. no.: 1912.1022]

Description

Nine boys: one plays a bagpipe, another a flute; a third may be holding a tambourine. The other boys dance.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tambourine [2746]
Flute [3955]
Bagpipe [3746]

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) 8 (170da82). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1982