Author: Visscher, Johannes de (1633-1692) after Berchem, Nicolaes (1622-1683)
Title: [Antique print, etching] Shephard playing the bagpipe/Schaapsherder bespeelt een soort doedelzak, ca 1650-1700.
Description: From a set of four plates, oriented upright, representing shepherds and shepherdesses on their paths to meadows, across water streams. Here a herd playing the bagpipe sitting under a tree. All around him, cattle and his flock, with a woman and a young child drinking from a bowl. No letters and no numbers. On verso, collector's mark of 'PICTURA' in Groningen [L. 2028]. Etching on paper, trimmed within and to plate mark; total: 273 x 224 mm; state I/4; rather browned paper, small hole towards the top; foxing visible on verso; dirt on the front. Watermark with fool's cap. Hollstein 63, Wess. 93.

Keywords: Animals|Farmers|Genre|Music|Rome|Women