Art, literature & history
The Sheep of His Pasture
1828
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- wood engraving
- Collection no.
- 1929.138
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edward Calvert. The Sheep of His Pasture. Edward Calvert; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Sheep of His Pasture — Edward Calvert. 1828.
Medium: wood engraving. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Calvert was so influenced by William Blake's wood engravings that The Sheep of His Pasture is directly based on an illustration for The Pastorals of Virgil. Calvert, however, even more than Blake, exploited the ability of wood engraving to achieve the most delicate detail, so astonishing in these miniatures. Calvert's subject matter originated from a vision of the golden age of pastoral innocence and abundance that has both Christian and classical overtones. The women in The Brook resemble figures carved on antique gems, and the tree stumps symbolize the transitory nature of life.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.