A piping boy: John Camillus Hone (1759-1836)

Hone, Nathaniel, I (1718-1784)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1769
Height:
36.8 cm  (14 1/2 in.)
Width:
32.0 cm  (12 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Ireland
    [Museum inv. no.: NGI. 440]

Description

The painter's son plays a recorder which has a rounded mouthpiece rather than the usual beaked type.

People as subjects

Hone, John Camillus (1759-1836)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Recorder [4039] (with rounded mouthpiece)

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) 69. ISBN 0903162229. RILM 1985-00222.

RIdIM record id

2599