Title from item., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional three stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., Plate numbered '42' in upper right corner., "To ye tune of ye Black Joke"--Lower right corner of plate., Opening words: Whence comes it that ye shining great, to titles born and awful state ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, volume1., Watermark: countermark E., and Annotation in an unidentified hand at bottom of sheet, recto.
In a sparsely furnished bedroom, a woman in a high night cap lies in a curtained bed on the right . A man stands in the center of the room, facing her, hat under his left arm. His riding crop lies on a table by the window
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved song for two voices and violin with a version for flute. Illustrated with an etching at top of sheet., Opening words: Off [sic] all comforts I miscarried ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Pro patria., and Window mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Title from item., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record; dated by costume., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved throughout, illustrated with an etching by Cole at top of sheet., For voice and harpsichord. Music on 2 staves with interlinear words. Additional two stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., and Opening words: Trust not man for he'll deceive you ...
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record; dated by costume., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved throughout, illustrated with etching by Cole at top of sheet., For voice and harpsichord. Music on 2 staves with interlinear words. Additional two stanzas below. Part for German flute at foot of page., and Opening words: When morn her sweets shall first unfold ...
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved throughout; illustrated with etching at top of sheet., Etching at top of sheet attributed to Cole based on other scores in this series., For voice and harpsichord. Music on 2 staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas below., and Opening words: While autumn weighs down the late year ...
The musical score with lyrics of a drinking song "The jolly Bacchanalians" with a copy of William Hogarth's "A midnight modern conversation" which shows a large party of men smoking, drinking, and singing around a table with a large bowl in the center. Several of the men are clearly intoxicated, one has fallen off his chair, lost his wig and is sprawled on the ground
Alternative Title:
Jolly Bacchanalians
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: Universal harmony, or, The gentleman & ladies' social companion. London : Printed for the proprietors & sold by J. Newbery at the Bible & Sun in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1746., Engraved throughout; illustrated with a design after Hogarth's painting 'A midnight modern conversation' at top of plate., and "P. 55"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors & sold by J. Newbery at the Bible & Sun in St. Paul's Church Yard
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved throughout ; illustrated with etching by Cole at top of sheet., For voice and harpsichord. Music on 2 staves with interlinear words. Additional two stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., and Opening words: If wine & musick have ye power to ease ye sickness of ye soul ...
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record; dated by costume., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved throughout, illustrated with etching by Cole at top of sheet., For voice and harpsichord. Music on 2 staves with interlinear words. Additional three stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., and Opening words: While pensive on the lonely plain ...
A song sheet, all engraved, with an oval image of an obese clergyman with a pipe in hand walking beside the caricatured figure of Jewish man, who carries a lantern, printed above two staves of music with the first verse, above 16 verses in three columns. On the left behind them is building with a lean-to while on the right in the distance across a body of water is a church with a steeple
Description:
Title engraved above image., Other editions attribute the text to George Alexander Stevens (1710-1784) in English short title catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 2nd, 1784, by J. Binns, Leeds, and J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Ethnic stereotypes, Intoxication, Pipes (Smoking), and Lanterns