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 Mounted on page numbered 17 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Lady Cecilia Johnston, facing right, seated at the organ upon which two cats are reading from a hymnal and yowling accompaniment. A parody of Reynold's painting of Mrs. Sheridan as St. Cecilia
Alternative Title:
Saint Cecilia
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 26 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 24th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817 and Cecilia, Saint.
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].
