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Rocky Landscape with Sleeping Shepherd

Philip Heinrich Dunker German, born Switzerland
1817
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Rocky Landscape with Sleeping Shepherd
  • Artist: Philip Heinrich Dunker (German (born Switzerland), Bern 1780–1836 Nuremberg)
  • Date: 1817
  • Medium: Watercolor; framing lines in pen and ink
  • Dimensions: sheet: 5 11/16 x 8 3/16 in. (14.5 x 20.8 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Carolyn H. Specht Gift, 2007
  • Object Number: 2007.121
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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