Donkey with Foal
by Spadecaller
Title
Donkey with Foal
Artist
Spadecaller
Medium
Digital Art - Digital & Photographic Art
Description
In the United States feral donkeys live west of the Rocky Mountains. Originally the donkey came from the rolling desert hills and sparse vegetation of northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Helping people carry goods across Egypt, these sure-footed and hardy equines were utilized for their ability to be great desert pack animals. The Nubian and Somalian subspecies of the African wild ass are the ancestors of the modern donkey. Remains of domestic donkeys dating to the fourth millennium BC have been found in Lower Egypt. Long after the domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats in the seventh and eighth millennia BC, the domestication of the donkey occurred. Approximately 5000–7000 years ago they were domesticated in Europe and brought to North America by Christopher Columbus in 1495. During the Gold Rush, donkeys, or burros as they were called by the Spanish and Portuguese were brought by Mexican explorers, and either escaped or were abandoned. The descendants of these burros are many of the invasive burros we see today. They are not native to North America.
With elements adapted from Albert Bierstadt’s painting, “Valley of the Yosemite” (1864), ‘Donkey with Foal’ is a hand-painted digital image and photo composite created in Spadecaller’s Florida Studio on 4/16/2023.
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April 16th, 2023
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