Art, literature & history
Shepherds with Their Herd Fording a Stream
1771
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 7.6 x 17.2 cm (3 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 7.9 x 17.5 cm (3 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2012.38.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ferdinand Kobell. Shepherds with Their Herd Fording a Stream. Ferdinand Kobell; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferdinand_Kobell,_Shepherds_with_Their_Herd_Fording_a_Stream,_1771,_NGA_157151.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Shepherds with Their Herd Fording a Stream — Ferdinand Kobell. 1771.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 7.6 x 17.2 cm (3 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 7.9 x 17.5 cm (3 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.38.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.