The Favourite Shepherd

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Artist/Maker	Uwins, Thomas (painter (artist))
Place of origin	Italy (painted)

Oil on panel depicting a group of women in rustic Italian dress, seated around a fountain collecting water in pots, and turning their heads eagerly towards a figure, a shepherd, that we cannot see. There is also a young man walking up the path towards them in the background, with a small dog on a lead.

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Category	Paintings
Object type	Oil painting
Title	The Favourite Shepherd (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Oil on panel Oil Paint Panel Oil Painting
Brief description	Oil painting entitled 'The Favourite Shepherd' by Thomas Uwins. Great Britain, 1837.
Physical description	Oil on panel depicting a group of women in rustic Italian dress, seated around a fountain collecting water in pots, and turning their heads eagerly towards a figure, a shepherd, that we cannot see. There is also a young man walking up the path towards them in the background, with a small dog on a lead.
Dimensions	Approx. height: 35cm Approx. width: 25.3cm Frame height: 53cm Frame width: 43cm Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style	British School
Marks and inscriptions	'Fountain at St Arcangelo/near Cava/South of Italy/painted by T UWINS A.R.A./1837' (Inscribed by the artist on the back)
Credit line	Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history	Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subjects depicted	Rural Fountain Italian Water
Place depicted	Italy
Bibliographic reference	Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 289
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	FA.215[O]

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Record created	April 18, 2007
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O134012/the-favourite-shepherd-oil-painting-uwins-thomas/

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