Textile Fragment
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
This work from the Houghton Farm series demonstrates Winslow Homer’s remarkable ability to use watercolor as both a descriptive and an expressive medium. The dark sky, rendered with carefully modulated gray washes, casts a moody, ominous tone over the idyllic pastoral subject of a shepherdess tending her flock.
Caption
Textile Fragment, 12th century. Silk and linen, tapestry-woven, 18 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (47 x 39.4 cm) Frame: 1 1/2 x 21 5/8 x 19 3/16 in. (3.8 x 55 x 48.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 39.90. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 39.90_PS1.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Textile Fragment
Date
12th century
Dynasty
Fatimid or Ayyubid
Period
Fatimid or Ayyubid
Geography
Place made: Africa
Medium
Silk and linen, tapestry-woven
Classification
Dimensions
18 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (47 x 39.4 cm) Frame: 1 1/2 x 21 5/8 x 19 3/16 in. (3.8 x 55 x 48.8 cm)
Credit Line
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Accession Number
39.90
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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