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- Published / Created:
- [1810?]
- Call Number:
- 810.00.00.72
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman plays the piano (right) with painful intentness, and sings, as does the man who holds open her music-book, inscribed 'On Rosy Bed by Tinckling Billy'. A middle-aged military officer stands full face playing the flute. A fat elderly 'cit' sleeps in an arm-chair (left); his wig has fallen off and his legs rest on another chair. Behind him a very obese man and an ugly and over-dressed woman with a grotesquely thin neck sing from the same piece of music: 'On Rosy Bed'. He warms his back at a blazing fire; the feathers in her hair are alight in one of the candles on the chimney-piece. A small boy blows a toy trumpet, a dog howls and a cat miaows, standing on an open music-book inscribed 'Water Part ....' Chinese figures on the chimney-piece and the lintel of the door represent comic musicians playing different instruments."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Delights of harmony
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Children, Dogs, Figurines, Musical instruments, Musicians, Pianos, Sconces, and Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A little music, or, The delights of harmony [graphic]
