Painting
1831
paint
From the collection of Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading
1831
paint
From the collection of Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading
Painting is a 1831 paint by Unknown, a British Romanticism work, held at Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading.
This painting shows a single sheep standing sideways. It has a long, curly coat and a tag on its ear. The artist wrote on the painting that it’s a four-shear sheep, the grandson of one called Old Black Knee. Formal animal portraits like this were popular in the early 1800s. They weren’t just art. Farmers used them to track bloodlines and prove their sheep’s good traits. This one came from a bigger set of animal pictures by the same artist. Look for more like this at the Museum of Ethnography.
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