The blind piper

Haverty, Joseph Patrick (1794-1864)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1844
Height:
76.0 cm  (29 15/16 in.)
Width:
59.0 cm  (23 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Ireland
    [Museum inv. no.: NGI. 166]

Description

Padraig O' Brien, a street musician, plays the uillean, or union, pipes. His daughter is seated next to him.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Union pipe [3779] (Instrument consists of bellows blown with drone pipes, some of which can be altered in pitch while playing.)

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Boydell, Barra. Music and paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin: The National Gallery of Ireland, 1985) 77-78. ISBN 0903162229. RILM 1985-00222.

RIdIM record id

3159