"Satire on Gay's "Beggar's Opera". In the foreground a group of animal-headed singers portraying the principal characters are shown on an outdoor stage beneath which Apollo and a muse are lying, a lyre and guitar beside them. In front of the stage a g...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Musicians, and Opera singers
"Satire on Gay's "Beggar's Opera". In the foreground a group of animal-headed singers portraying the principal characters are shown on an outdoor stage beneath which Apollo and a muse are lying, a lyre and guitar beside them. In front of the stage a g...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Sold at [the] Print Shop in [the] Strand near Catherine Street
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Musicians, and Opera singers
"Portrait, whole length, of a man playing the violin. His figure faces the spectator, his head turned in profile to left. He is dressed macaroni-fashion with a large looped club."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, July 2d, 1772, accor. to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Violins, and Musicians
Leaf 76. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, whole length, of a man playing the violin. His figure faces the spectator, his head turned in profile to left. He is dressed macaroni-fashion with a large looped club."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, July 2d, 1772, accor. to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Musicians, Hairstyles, Wigs, and Violins
A scene outside the Ram Inn (with a ram above the sign "Dealer in foreigh wintes"), part of whose front forms a background. Yokels are crowded in a wagons with banners, fiddlers, and trumpeter, all wearing favors, and accompanied by many pedestrians (...
"Boswell and two men in Highland dress dance a Highland fling on the summit of a low mountain, with the sea and a low spur of land on the horizon. Boswell, full-face, capers; his wig and pendant ink-pot with the pen in it, stream in the wind. He flour...
Alternative Title:
Dance on Duncan
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland. and Scottish.
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"Portrait of the fiddler Patie Birnie, half-length, standing to right in front of a brick wall, looking towards the viewer, smiling, holding up a violin in his left hand; wearing cloak over tight-fitting jacket, strap and neckscarf tied in a knot."--B...
Alternative Title:
Effigie of Patie Birnie, the famous fidler of Kinghorn and Effigie of Patie Birnie, the famous fiddler of Kinghorn
