Johann Adam Klein
German, 1792-1875
Dromedary and Camel
INV-1294
Johann Adam Klein
German, 1792-18751817
Dromedary and Camel
Johann Adam Klein German, 1792-1875 →etchingprint
Date
1817
Medium
Etching in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 19.4 × 25 cm (7 11/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 22.9 × 29.6 cm (9 1/16 × 11 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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.
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