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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 June 1813]
- Call Number:
- 813.06.21.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men, elderly and grotesque, stand one on each side of a double-bass, playing it simultaneously with great vigour; one (right) is left-handed. Behind the instrument stands a violinist, holding up fiddle and bow in his right hand, giving an agonized scream and stopping his ear with his finger. In the foreground lies a large open music-book: 'Double Bass Hum strum diddle dum'. On the wall is a picture of a little chimneysweep flourishing two brushes like drum-sticks behind the Hottentot Venus (see British Museum satires No. 11577), who capers along, pipe in one hand, staff in the other, her much-exaggerated posterior serving as a drum. A vase of flowers stands on a wall-bracket.'
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 21t 1813 by H Humphrey, St. James's Street London
- Subject (Topic):
- Khoikhoi (African people), Chimney sweeps, Dance, Double basses, Floor coverings, Musicians, and Violins
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Double bass proposals for six practical duets adapted to any instrument / [graphic]
