Download/Print Selected Image
Copy Caption to clipboard
Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain, Young Male Shearing a Sheep, undated
- Title:
Young Male Shearing a Sheep
- Additional Title(s):
Boy Shearing Sheep
- Part Of:
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/4 x 10 3/16 inches (36.2 x 25.9 cm), Plate: 12 13/16 x 8 7/8 inches (32.6 x 22.5 cm), Image: 11 5/16 x 8 13/16 inches (28.8 x 22.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "Ph. Mercier Pinxt:"; lower center: "Rural Life."; lower right: "J. Faber fecit."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11958
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- agriculture | boy | child | coat | genre subject | labor | laborer | livestock | peasant | rural | shears | sheep | working
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:52064
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
John Ingamells, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings of Philip Mercier, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 46, Walpole Society, 1976-8, p. 46, no. 179, N12 W35 +A1 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us.