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1. Rural beauty, or, Vaux-Hal Garden
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1737?]
- Call Number:
- 737.00.00.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- notated music and still image
- Abstract:
- "View overlooking gardens, showing a band playing from the orchestra on the right; elegantly dressed figures strolling through gardens or seated at tables amongst trees; head-piece illustration to 'The Musical Entertainer', p. 21; with the score of a song below, all printed from the same plate."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Vaux-Hal Garden and Vauxhall Garden
- Description:
- Title from item., Dedication beneath title: To the Rt. Hon. [the] Ld. Visct. Baltimore, these four plates are humbly inscrib'd., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas in two columns below., Opening words: Flora, Goddess, sweetly blooming ..., Plate from: Bickham, G. Musical entertainer., Musical entertainer is sometimes attributed to George Bickham, Senior., Plate numbered "21" in upper right corner., "No. VI."--Lower left corner., and Eighteenth-century watermark. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- G. Bickham
- Subject (Geographic):
- Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Songs with piano, Songs with harpsichord, and Songs, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Rural beauty, or, Vaux-Hal Garden
2. The charms of dishabille, or, New Turnbridge Wells at Islington
- Creator:
- Lockman, John, 1698-1771
- Published / Created:
- [1740?]
- Call Number:
- 740.00.00.39+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- notated music
- Alternative Title:
- New Turnbridge Wells at Islington
- Description:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- G. Bickham
- Subject (Geographic):
- Islington (London, England),
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The charms of dishabille, or, New Turnbridge Wells at Islington
3. The vicar and Moses [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [2 July 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.07.02.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and notated music
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The vicar and Moses [graphic].