- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd 23d March 1773.
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 773.03.23.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three men playing musical instruments: A fat man (left) sitting in a chair plays a viol da gamba, perhaps a portrait of Abel, see British Museum Satires No. 5163. A thin man in profile to the left plays a flute. He wears a bag-wig, laced coat, ruffled shirt and sword. A piece of music protrudes from his coat pocket. Behind, a stout man plays a horn."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Artist attribution to Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787, Fischer, Johann Christian, 1733-1800, and Punto, Giovanni, 1746-1803
- Subject (Topic):
- Music and Musical instruments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Concerto spirituale [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [21 October 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 99. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man seated and playing a viol da gamba, the upper end of which is decorated by a carved head with a smiling face, wearing a laurel wreath, which is probably a portrait of the musician. He wears a small wig, a coat with large old-fashioned cuffs, and ruffled shirt-sleeves. Probably Karl Friedrich Abel, well known in London concert rooms at this time."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Seigneur Catgutaneo and Signor Catgutaneo
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "18" in upper right corner., Third of three plates on leaf 99., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 12.5 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accorg. to act Octr. 21, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Musicians, Violas, and Wood carvings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Seignor Catgutaneo [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [21 October 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 72 771 D37 v.6 plate 18
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 99. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man seated and playing a viol da gamba, the upper end of which is decorated by a carved head with a smiling face, wearing a laurel wreath, which is probably a portrait of the musician. He wears a small wig, a coat with large old-fashioned cuffs, and ruffled shirt-sleeves. Probably Karl Friedrich Abel, well known in London concert rooms at this time."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Seigneur Catgutaneo and Signor Catgutaneo
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., and Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "18" in upper right corner.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accorg. to act Octr. 21, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Musicians, Violas, and Wood carvings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Seignor Catgutaneo [graphic].
- Creator:
- Bates, L., active 1777-1779, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.00.00.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Musicians in a church, with vocalists singing from books in upper level and instrumentalists below, the latter labeled to indicate their nationalities, Prussia, Ger., Ital, Swiss, and on the far right Engl., possibly corresponding to caricature portrait of Dr. Arne. The bass player labeled Ger. may represent Karl Friedrich Abel. To the right the church congregation is indicated, with men in the foreground and women with the fashionable pyramidal hair styles seated in the upper gallery
- Description:
- Title and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title pencilled below image: The morning concert., and In laid to 30 x 34 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787. and Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778.
- Subject (Topic):
- Church musicians, Church music, Musicians, Churches, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Vocal and instrumental music in a church] [graphic]