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TitleItalian Shepherd Boy

Creator nameAllston, Washington

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1819

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions21 × 17 inches (53.3 × 43.2 cm)

LocationDetroit Institute of Arts

https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/italian-shepherd-boy-24437

Accession number44.166

SubjectsShepherds in artPastoral artPainting, American--19th century

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3. Reading the Campagna: “Silence Made Visible”

William L. Vance

America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome

In the spring of 1833 America’s first “foreign correspondent” stood on the “lofty turrets” of the Tomb of Cecilia Metella and saw before him the original of “one of the finest landscapes ever painted” ...

Author

William L. Vance

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.68-153

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16822&redirecttoanchor=25375

Chapter subject tags:Campagna di Roma (Italy)ArcadianismCole, Thomas, 1801-1848Landscape painting, American--19th centuryAmerican literature--19th centuryInness, George, 1825-1894James, Henry, 1843-1916Rome (Italy)--In literature

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