Gris med Säckpipa

Dahl, Ernst


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1904
Technique / Medium:
watercolor
Place of creation:
Uppland

    Item location

  • Harg kyrka
    Watercolor copy of a wall painting that was located on the pillar between bays II and III in the south arcade. The wall image was stripped off during the 1904 restoration of the church but the watercolor copy is extant in the Antikvarisk-Topografiska Arkivet(ATA) in Stockholm.

Description

A pig plays a bagpipe which has no visible drone.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746] (very thick chanter with no visible finger holes, held under the pig's right trotter.)

Bibliographic references

Barth Magnus, Ingebjørg and Birgit Kjellström. Musikmotiv i svensk kyrkokonst: Uppland fram till 1625 = Musical Motifs in Swedish Church Art: The Region of Uppland up to 1625. Trans. by Michael Stevens (Stockholm: Svenska RIdIM-kommittén; Statens musiksamlingar, 1993) 150-51. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

Notes

This watercolor copy of the wall painting is extant in the Antikvarisk-Topografiska Arkivet(ATA)in Stockholm.

RIdIM record id

2354