- 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]
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- Published / Created:
- [30 August 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.08.30.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The instrumentalists are closely grouped round the armchair of the father of the family, a stout man in old-fashioned dress, who sits full face singing loudly, an open music book on his knees, his feet supported on the bar of his chair. His very fat wife sits beside him (right) blowing a trumpet to the grotesque inflation of cheek and neck. The eldest daughter (left) plays the double-bass; behind her stands a girl beating a tambourine. The younger children flank the design: a fat little girl (left) plays the triangle, looking up at her sister's tambourine. On the right a little boy sits at his mother's feet beating a large kettle-drum and shouting; he sits on two large volumes: 'Doctor Burneys Musical Travels [i.e., The Present State of Music in France and Italy ... 1771', and 'The Present State of Music in Germany . . . [etc.]', 2 v. 1773]. Mother and daughters are fashionably dressed; the daughters are comely. A howling dog seated on the extreme left adds to the impression of violent noise."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Caption in design: Musick has charms to sooth the savage breast, to soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak.
- Publisher:
- Pub'd Augst. 30th, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Families, Musical instruments, and Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A musical family [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [December 1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.12.00.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An Italian family, in a poverty-stricken room, practise for opera. A young man stands full-face, singing, his fingers interlaced across his chest. He wears an open, ruffled shirt, awaistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings. To his right an old man plays an enormous 'cello. To his left a middle-aged man, seated in profile singing, plays a low harpsichord; he wears open ruffled shirt and breeches, with bare legs. Beside him on the extreme left a little boy dressed in a shirt plays the violin. On the extreme right a pretty young woman sits over the fire with an infant on her knee; she holds out a cloth to dry, looking over her shoulder to sing. Her score ('Affetuoso') is pinned to the chimney-piece, on which stands a crucifix with a tankard, &c. A lean greyhound howls up the chimney. All but the old man have fashionably dressed hair, and a certain elegance. The room is lit from an open casement window (left); there are dark cast shadows and the bare room has no ceiling. On the wall are a print of 'Vestris' dancing, a sword, a play-bill: 'l'Avaro Deluso' (opera by Paisiello, libretto by Vulpius), and a bunch of farthing dips; on the window ledge a cracked mirror, cocked hat, bottles, &c. Beneath the harpsichord is a large bowl labeled 'Macaroni'; and in the foreground lie a violin, music-books, earthenware pots, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 1785 by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho. Sold by W. Hinton, No. 5 Sweeting Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Name):
- Vulpius, Christian August, 1762-1827, Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816, and Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Families, Italian, Mothers, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An Italian family [graphic]
- Creator:
- Leech, John, 1817-1864, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1840]
- Call Number:
- 841.00.00.26
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Number two in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's hunting envelope, Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's alderman envelopes, etc
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue., "No. 2"., and Sheet trimmed within design.
- Publisher:
- Published by Messrs. Fores at their Sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactory, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
- Subject (Name):
- Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
- Subject (Topic):
- Musical instruments, Musicians, Orchestras, Postal stationery, and Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fores's musical envelope [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [6 August 1823]
- Call Number:
- 823.08.06.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of five musicians, men and women, singing and playing instruments, shown half-length
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Aug. 6, 1823 by T. Dickinson 114 New Bond St.
- Subject (Topic):
- Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The concert [graphic].