[The music room] [art original].

Description

Title: [The music room] [art original].
Creator: Martin, Elias, 1739-1818, artist
Published / Created: [1771?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A woman in bonnet and dress plays a harpsicord, the sheet music propped up on the instrument. Her music teacher, a large man with a beauty patch on his check, smiles approvingly as he points with his baton
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Artist from Horace Walpole inscription on a companion painting: The library.
One of the companion paintings is also in the Lewis Walpole Library. See Martin's "The library."
Formerly hung in the "red bed chamber" at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, home of Horace Walpole. Sold at the 1842 London sale as one of the "Four humourous drawings, washed, perfectly unique of their kind, by Elias Martin."
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Strawberry Hill Sale, xxii, lot 73, 1842, to George Robins, Esq. £1.11.0. Sabin, sold to W.S. Lewis, March 1970, £250.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval sheet 15.6 x 13.1 cm, mounted to 22 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: brown wash, pen and black ink with watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Harpsichords
Women
Music education
Music rooms
Teachers
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Harpsichords
Women
Music education
Music rooms
Teachers
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Elias Martin, The Music Room. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.