Apiary door board

NamePainting

Artist Artist unrecorded

Date1880

Place madeSlovenia, Europe

MediumWood, paint

Dimensions4 3/4 × 12 3/16 × 13/16 in. (12 × 30.9 × 2.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Dr. Nathaniel Tarn, A.2017.53.3

Object numberA.2017.53.3

DescriptionApiary door board depicting a giant snail chasing tailors. A man on the viewer's left is running away, behind him, a man is lying on the ground, holding scissors in his upraised hand. A third man is in the tree at the center of the painting. There is a giant snail on the far right side, and 1880 is painted at the far left.