Ticket to a concert at Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket, May 179[blank], with the day and year annotated in manuscript. On the right, St Cecilia seated, playing the organ; on the left, two winged figures standing; in an oval; below, a block of low-relief which depicts Charity and three children; a lion and a unicorn on sides of the relief; after Robert Smirke; title for 1792 concert printed in a separate printmark at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from engraved text above image; image and text on separate plates., For proof before letters, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: on page numbered 16 in Folio 75 B28 804., The plate with the image was used multiple times for concerts including ones held at at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792 and one at Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797. See impressions in the British Museum online catalogue., "Arnold" annotated below image in brown ink., and Formerly mounted on page numbered 17 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Full-length portrait, seated on a chair in centre, writing a music score on a table, looking up to top right; to right, a young angel standing in profile to left, putting a crown of laurels over Handel's head; a little angel flying above them, holding a banner with Handel's name; light shining from top; pipe-organ to left; in an oval frame decorated with laurels and a banner; book-illustration to 'An account of the musical performances in commemoration of Handel'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 19 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Proof of an engraving which was later used on tickets to multiple concerts including one at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792 (see impression in the British Museaum online catalogue), one at Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797 (see impression in the British Museaum online catalogue) and another at the Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket, May 179[blank] (see impression in the Lewis Walpole Library). The image shows, on the right, St Cecilia seated, playing the organ; on the left, two winged figures standing; in an oval; below, a block of low-relief which depicts Charity and three children; a lion and a unicorn on sides of the relief; after Robert Smirke
Alternative Title:
Concert Room, Kings Theatre, Haymarket, May 179, St. Margaret's Church Wesminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792, and Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration number C,3.95., and On page numbered 16 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
An angel with a crown of flowers on her head holds two sleeping babies in her arms as she flies to the left. The sky is drawn with a crescent moon, clouds, stars, two bats, and an owl. Below her, a rural scene with cows sleeping to right and a boy (a shepherd?) to the left, who also sleeps, his arms resting against a rock out-cropping. In the background, a man and woman walk toward a cottage, the man holding a torch to light the way. In the distance on a hill is a walled city, with smoke pouring from the building on the right
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Watermark: Pro patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Angels, Bats, Cattle, Infants, Owls, Rural life, and Sleeping