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  2. Category:Sheep in art - Wikipedia

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    S. Sacrifice of Isaac (Caravaggio) Sacrificial Scene; Saint Agnes (Massimo Stanzione) Saint George and the Dragon (Rubens) St John Altarpiece (Memling)

  3. Anguish (Schenck) - Wikipedia

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    It depicts an anguished mother sheep standing over the dead body of her lamb, surrounded by a murder of crows. Perhaps Schenck's most famous painting, it is held by National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne, Australia since 1880. The painting was an early acquisition by the gallery, just a few years after it was founded, and has been voted the ...

  4. Drawing - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1485) Accademia, Venice. Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instruments used to make a drawing are pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets or gamepads in VR drawing software.

  5. Shearing the Rams - Wikipedia

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    Shearing the Rams is an 1890 painting by Australian artist Tom Roberts.It depicts sheep shearers plying their trade in a timber shearing shed.Distinctly Australian in character, the painting is a celebration of pastoral life and work, especially "strong, masculine labour", and recognises the role that the wool industry played in the development of the country.

  6. Romney sheep - Wikipedia

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    The first confirmed export of Romneys from England was a shipment of 20 from Stone, Kent, that went on the Cornwall to New Zealand in 1853. With these and a further 30 ewes sent in 1856, Alfred Ludlum established New Zealand's first Romney Marsh stud in 1860 at Newry, in the Hutt Valley, and Ludlam's brother-in-law, Augustus Onslow Manby Gibbes, also bred them around this time in Australia at ...

  7. Dolly (sheep) - Wikipedia

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    A commercial with Scottish scientists playing with sheep was aired on TV, and a special report in Time magazine featured Dolly. [7] Science featured Dolly as the breakthrough of the year . Even though Dolly was not the first animal cloned, she received media attention because she was the first cloned from an adult cell.

  8. Wensleydale sheep - Wikipedia

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    A Wensleydale in full fleece Wool of an adult Wensleydale A six-day-old black Wensleydale lamb resting.. The Wensleydale is a British breed of domestic sheep. [1] [2] It is named for the Wensleydale region of North Yorkshire, in the north of England, where it was bred in the early nineteenth century by cross-breeding a Dishley Leicester ram with local long-woolled sheep of a breed that is now ...

  9. Jacob sheep - Wikipedia

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    In the de Tabley family, the tradition was that the piebald sheep had come ashore in Ireland from a wrecked ship of the Spanish Armada in 1588, and been brought to England by Sir John Byrne on his marriage. [6]: 33 Among the many accounts of ancient breeds of piebald sheep is the story of Jacob from the Book of Genesis (Genesis