Title: Why then begin..., illustration to "A Bucolick or Discourse of Neatherds"
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1880
Artist:  Edwin Austin Abbey 
Artist bio: American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1852–1911 London
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and ink
Dimensions: sheet: 16 7/16 x 10 7/8 in. (41.8 x 27.6 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1912, transferred from American
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Musical Instruments, term: Poetry, term: Men, term: Women