Merrymaking at a wayside inn

Krimmel, John L. (1786–1821) (attributed to)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1811
Height:
18.1 cm  (7 1/8 in.)
Width:
23.3 cm  (9 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
watercolor and graphite on white laid paper
Place of creation:
United States

Description

Indoor scene (inside an inn): two white women and men approximating; one couple kissing; an African-American man with violin seated at the right side.

Iconclass

43B31
indoor recreation, inn
48C7561
instrumental popular music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
Metropolitan Museum: The Collection Online

Notes

The watercolor was formerly attributed to Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787/88–1839).

RIdIM record id

4601

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