Seventh Regiment on review, Washington Square, New York

Boetticher, Otto (born 1816)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1851
Height:
61.0 cm  (24 in.)
Width:
91.4 cm  (36 in.)
Signature: [at lower left]: Otto Boetticher / 1851
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    American Paintings and Sculpture[Museum inv. no.: 54.90.295]Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954

Description

An army band of twelve, led by a drum major with a baton, including six alto horns, three tenor horns (alto saxhorns) and probably one bass horn (depiction not clear); two more instruments not clearly visible.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Alto saxhorn [4322] (Three tenor horns, also called alto saxhorns)
Drum [2585]
Alto horn [4321] (Six alto horns)
Bass horn [4351] (Depiction unclear)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3216