Shepherdess

Unknown (American)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. 1840

Height:

47.3 cm  (18 5/8 in.)

Width:

40.0 cm  (15 3/4 in.)

sheet: 47.3 x 40.0 cm (18 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

pen, watercolor and some stencil on velvet

Place of creation:

United States

School:

Folk art (traditional art)

Description

From museum website:
Folk art velvet. Girl with horn seated under tree right, holding lamb; goat in foreground left. Church and two trees in background left.

Iconclass

47I221
herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.
48C751
one person with musical instrument, not playing

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown horn [5177] (imprecise representation; straight folk instrument with flared bell)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

6038