Boy with Cow
About this artwork
This photograph, from a series called 'Costumes of Liguria', was taken by the Genoese photographer, Alfredo Noack, in the 1880s. The pictures recorded the people of the region and their activities. The boy has been depicted as a social type (a peasant) rather than an individual. This was a trend in the art of the time when artists, like anthropologists later on, concerned themselves with the way society operates and its constituent parts.
Updated before 2020
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title:Boy with Cow
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date created:1880s
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:20.70 x 28.00 cm
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credit line:Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell 1985
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accession number:PGP R 878
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A. Noack
A. Noack
Alfredo Noack was born in Dresden but moved to live in Genoa in Italy, where he set up a studio in Vico del Filo. He specialised in taking landscapes for the growing tourist industry. He created images of Italian village life showing scenes of shepherds and cowherds - subjects that had long since...