Ars-musica [graphic] / [compass pointing north] Esqr. del.

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Title: Ars-musica [graphic] / [compass pointing north] Esqr. del.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
North, Brownlow, 1778-1829, artist.
Published / Created: 1800 February 16
Copyright Date: [16 February 1800]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "A grinning woman sits full-face behind a square piano, playing with complacent vigour. At her feet is a dog. She accompanies an elderly violinist (left) and 'cellist (right), who both regard her with rage; the former has ceased playing. The 'cellist's contorted features are copied in BMSat 9605."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing north.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24 x 33 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Artists' devices.
Etchings--England--Cambridge--1800.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1800.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
North, Brownlow, 1778-1829, artist.

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9586
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 500
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 271