Sleeping Shepherdess
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Collection
Stowe, Buckinghamshire
NT 91982.2.1
Summary
Lifesize statue of a sleeping Shepherd on a low rectangular base mounted on a high pedestal plinth. The shepherdess is depicted sleeping and seated on and leaning against the base of a tree stump. She rests her head on her proper right hand, and her proper right elbow is propped up on the stump. She is wearing a long, loose dress, a belt and a bonnet. A leather water bottle rests on the tree stump behind her.