An Irish piper

Bridgford, Thomas (1812-1878)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1843
Height:
61.0 cm  (24 in.)
Width:
51.0 cm  (20 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Ireland
    [Museum inv. no.: NGI. 855]

Description

A piper poses with his instrument, the uillean, or union, pipes.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Union pipe [3779] (Two long drone pipes are visible. Two, perhaps three, regulators can also be seen.)

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) 80. ISBN 0903162229. RILM 1985-00222.

RIdIM record id

3160