The Pet Lamb

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1881

Location Note

Vertical file 4: OVR 111-120

GUSN

GUSN-199156

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Description

This image depicts a European-style farm-maid feeding her pet lamb while another sheep looks on. There is a rustic twig fence in the foreground, and a church spire in the left background.

Details

Descriptive Terms

spires
prints (visual works)
chromolithographs

Additional Identification Number

Prints and Engravings Collection Number 111OVR

Physical Descrption

1 chromolithograph

Collection Code

GC002

Collection Name

Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

Date of Acquisition

1980

Reference Code

GC002.02.111

Image Dimensions

10.5 x 14 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

From Jewett House, 1980.

Record Details

Originator

H. Hallett & Co. (Lithographer)

Material Type

prints (visual works)
chromolithographs

Subjects

Lamb

Restrictions

Discolored by varnish overlay, tack marks on corners and upper and lower edges.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Vertical file 4: OVR 111-120

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