Sheepshearing

Sheepshearing — Johann Adam Klein. 1818.

Medium: Etching in black on ivory wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 15.2 × 21 cm (6 × 8 5/16 in.); Plate: 17.1 × 22.6 cm (6 3/4 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 17.9 × 23.4 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/4 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

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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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.