The jolly flatboatmen

Bingham, George Caleb (1811-1879)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1846
Height:
96.8 cm  (38 1/8 in.)
Width:
123.2 cm  (48 1/2 in.)
framed size: 116.8 x 143.8 cm
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 2015.18.1]

Description

A group of men on a flatboat are relaxing and enjoying music and dancing. One man plays violin (fiddle) and another seems to be striking a metal pan with his hand.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Percussion vessel [5853]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5386