Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 59 (Sale info: TO BE DISTRIBUTED).
"'Pensive o'er his scatter'd flock,/ the little shepherd in his white capote/ doth lean his boyish form along the rock.' - Childe Harold." [P. 10; an asterisk alongside entry indicated that this painting was "in the exhibition of the National Academy of Design, which is now open."]
No. 7. 1847. June 1. The American Art-Union: Plan of the Institution, List of its Officers, and Catalogue of Paintings, and other Works of Art, to be seen gratis at their rooms, 497 Broadway, New-York. Snowdon and Prall, Printers, 60 Vesey St., N.Y.