Concerto spirituale [graphic]

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Title: Concerto spirituale [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd 23d March 1773.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Three men playing musical instruments: A fat man (left) sitting in a chair plays a viol da gamba, perhaps a portrait of Abel, see British Museum Satires No. 5163. A thin man in profile to the left plays a flute. He wears a bag-wig, laced coat, ruffled shirt and sword. A piece of music protrudes from his coat pocket. Behind, a stout man plays a horn."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Artist attribution to Bunbury from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Peter Murray Hill; October 1957; Annotated on verso: 'Ld B' Album.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.1 x 20 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787
Fischer, Johann Christian, 1733-1800
Punto, Giovanni, 1746-1803
Subject (Topic): Music
Musical instruments
Subjects: Music
Musical instruments
Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fischer, Johann Christian, 1733-1800 > Caricatures and cartoons
Punto, Giovanni, 1746-1803 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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