Shepherd and shepherdess in landscape

Unknown (American)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. 1820-1850

Height:

31.9 cm  (12 9/16 in.)

Width:

39.4 cm  (15 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor and stencil, pen and black ink on velvet

Place of creation:

United States

School:

Folk art (traditional art)

Description

From museum website:
Folk art velvet. Youth and girl playing musical instruments beside tree; dog, sheep and lamb in foreground. Very probably by same hand as no. 1292 (62.135)
[no.1292 is the number from the donor's catalog, the museum's id number is 62.135, and it is for a somewhat similar scene but without musical instruments]

Iconclass

47I211
herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.
48C7525
one person playing wind instrument
48C7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Banjo [3226] (possibly an early banjo-mandolin hybrid; imprecise representation; folk instrument)
End-blown flute [3940] (imprecise representation; folk instrument)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

6036