The Ettrick Shepherd

James McIntosh Patrick 1907 - 1998

Summary

View across a snow covered rural landscape, with a farmyard surrounded by buildings and sheep pens in the foreground, flanked by groups of trees to left and right. In the bottom right corner, a dog herds the sheep through a pen down towards the shepherd and farmyard to left. Details of village life visible in the background and to left, including children skating on a frozen lake and a farmer with horse and cart in a field full of grazing sheep. Snowy mountains in the distance beneath a clouded sky scattered with dark silhouetted birds in flight.