Tuning
William Sidney Mount (American, 1807–1868)
1867
- Medium
- graphite
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9.7 x 16.2 cm (3 13/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
William Sidney Mount was the first major American painter of genre, or scenes of everyday life. While not directly related, the musical subject matter of two of these drawings, Tuning and Catching a Tune, brings to mind Mount's famous painting, The Power of Music, which is on view gallery 231.
