Sheepshearing

Prints and Drawings

1818

Johann Adam Klein
German, 1792-1875

Johann Adam Klein was a painter and engraver from Nuremberg, Germany. He spent most of the period 1811–18 at the Art Academy in Vienna, where he designed and printed the etchings Dromedary and Camel (2013.382) and Sheepshearing (2013.384). Indeed, Klein specified below the image that he drew the camels from life in the famed Vienna zoo, the Menagerie Schönbrunn. No such declaration of accuracy or outdoor observation accompanies the more quotidian, but energetic, scene of sheep having their wool sheared.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Johann Adam Klein
Title: Sheepshearing
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1818
Medium: Etching in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 15.2 × 21 cm (6 × 8 5/16 in.); Plate: 17.1 × 22.6 cm (6 3/4 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 17.9 × 23.4 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.384
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