Playing the flute in the Roman Countryside

Playing the flute in the Roman Countryside
Late 1800s. «Shepherd boy in the Countryside», Rudolf Shick. Antique print made as an illustration for the volume ‘Italien. Einewanderung von den Alpenbiszum Aetna’ by C. Stieler, E. Paulus y W. Kaden, edited in Stuttgart for J. Engelhorn, in 1876

Playing the flute in the Roman Countryside

Goats completely similar to those portrayed by Rosa da Tivoli are also found in a 1876 drawing of the «Agro Romano» landscape by Rudolf Shick. Also here, the main characteristics of the animals being portrayed are longhair coats, divergent horns and erect/semi-erect ears.