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1.
Rational harmony, by the Birmingham musicians, as in the Bloomsbury Concert Rooms, London, and new

Creator:
Edwards, W. S. (Musician)
Published / Created:
[1823]
Call Number:
File 74 823 Ed26+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
For two nights
Description:
Caption title., "Front seats, 2s. - Back seats, 1s. - Children, half-price. Tickets to be had of the printer. Doors to be opened at half-past 6 o'clock in the evening, and to commence at 7.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Davison, printer, Alnwick
Subject (Geographic):
England and Alnwick.
Subject (Topic):
Concerts and Glass harmonica
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Rational harmony, by the Birmingham musicians, as in the Bloomsbury Concert Rooms, London, and new Assembly Rooms, Cheltenham ... The largest scale of musical glasses in the world. : Messrs. Edwards most respectfully inform the nobility, gentry, and public of Alnwick, and its vicinity, that they will have the honour of performing on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, the 28th and 29th of Jan. 1823, in the Town-Hall, a grand miscellaneous concert of five different sets of grand harmonica, or harmonized musical glasses, by Messrs. W.S. and J. Edwards ...

2.
Ancient music [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 May 1787] and [not before 1801]
Call Number:
Drawer 787.05.10.01.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The King and Queen (left), seated under a canopy decorated with a crown and the royal arms, listen enraptured to a concert; the performers are arranged in a pyramid on the right. Numbers on the figures refer to notes engraved beneath the design. George III leans back, his hands clasped, eyes turned ecstatically upwards; he wears a laurel wreath and his head is surrounded by a star-shaped halo. The Queen sits upright with an eager expression, beating time; her hair and scraggy neck are covered with jewels (cf. BMSat 6978, &c). On the extreme left, and on the King's right, stands Pitt, very erect, a rattle in his right hand, blowing a whistle attached to a child's coral and bells. Behind the Queen are two ladies: '4', lean and ugly, holds an ear-trumpet to her ear; ['5'], who is stout, holds a parakeet on her finger. This group is: '1 Mr P------t'. '2 K------'. '3 Q------'. '4 Mad. Schw---gh--n' [Schwellenberg]. '5 Miss Jeff-----s' [Elizabeth Jefferyes or Jeffries, a Maid of Honour]. The royal party are on a circular carpet. On the roof of the canopy sits a demon holding up a purse in each hand, emblem of the supposed avarice of the King and Queen, a favourite subject with Gillray, cf. BMSat 7166, and see BMSat 7836, &c. Three demon hounds, inscribed 'G. R. Windsor', chase a realistically drawn fox (Fox), to whose tail is tied (by a ribbon inscribed 'Coalition') a pot with the features of North. The performers are arranged behind a low semicircular barrier. A stout man with a goat's head is asleep on the left, his hands clasped on his breast; from his pocket protrudes a paper inscribed 'Road to Wynnstay' (cf. BMSat 7068, &c). He is '6 Sr W. W. W-----ne' [Williams-Wynn], one of the founders of 'The Concert of Antient Music'. A demon child and an infant with butterfly-wings sit together on the barrier, singing from one book. A braying ass holding a book is '7 Mr Assb-----ge' (Ashbridge, a celebrated kettle-drummer). A bird of prey (? an owl) wearing a large cap stands on the barrier, a piece of music under its claws inscribed 'Anointed Solomon, King over all, E------'. She is '8 Mad. Mara.' Next '7' is seated a large ox supporting a music-book on his hoofs. He is 'J------h B--tes' (Joah Bates, originator (1776) and conductor of 'The Concert of Antient Music'). In the second row of performers (right to left) is a group (behind '7' and '8') of three fishwives: '10, D------ R------d'. the Duke of Richmond, with a basket of fish on his head, arms akimbo, is scolding '11, M-----s La--sd--e' (Marquis Lansdowne), while '12, Col. B--r-' (Barré), his eyes closed, joins in the dispute. An allusion to the altercation in the House of Lords over Richmond's proposed fortifications (see BMSat 7149 etc.). Next, realistically drawn, is '13 Sir J. M--why' (Mawbey), holding under his arm a squeaking pig whose tail he is twisting as if it were a musical instrument. Mawbey, as a distiller, was famous for keeping large quantities of hogs, see BMSats 5746, 7506, &c. Two lawyers sing from the same music; they are '14 Atty Genl' (Arden) and '15 Sollr Genl' (Macdonald). Behind their heads, and towards the apex of the pyramid, stand two judges facing each other, each holding a chimney-sweep's shovel and brush which they strike together in the manner of chimney-sweeps on May Day. They are '16. D--n--as' (Dundas) and '17. Ld L--ghb--gh' (Loughborough). The former's shovel is decorated with a thistle, the latter's with a man hanging from a gibbet, with the date '1745' and 'Kenn Com' in allusion to the Jacobites executed on Kennington Common, one of whom was Sir John Wedderburn. The apex of the pyramid is '18. Ch--n--ll--r', Thurlow, standing with a fierce expression; he holds up a pair of birch-rods above the bare posteriors of two terrified boys who serve as kettle-drums. Two squalling and fighting cats hang from the ceiling by ribbons attached to their tails. Beneath the design is engraved: '------Monarchs, who with Rapture wild, Hear their own Praise with Mouths of gaping Wonder, And control each Crotchet of the Birth-day Thunder. Peter Pindar.' The satire illustrates this and other passages from 'Ode upon Ode', which attack Pitt for obsequiousness to the King, and the King and Queen for their parsimony in attending the Concerts of Antient Music as subscribers instead of having concerts at their palace: '- Monarchs, who with oeconomic Fury Force all the tuneful World to Tot'n'am Lane.' Mawbey is mentioned: 'Strains! that Sir Joseph Mawbey deem'd divine, Sweet as the Quavers of his fattest Swine.' Wynn also: 'The sleek Welsh Deity who Music knows- The Alexander of the Tot'n'am Troops.' Richmond is mentioned: 'Mad as his Military Grace For fortifying ev'ry Place . . .' The cats: 'How like the Notes of Cats, a vocal Pair.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with numbers and explanatory notes, hairs on the queen's face and further stippling on the king's face., Publication date inferred from watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Sir John Wedderburn, 1704-1746? -- Chimney sweep's implements -- Singing lawyers -- Squeking pigs -- Fighting cats -- Dispute over Richmond's fortifications -- Child demons -- Ribbon of coalition -- Circular carpets -- Royal canopies -- Demon hounds -- Royal parsimony -- Birds: paraket -- Owls -- Kensington Common -- Literature: allusion to Peter Pindar's Ode upon ode -- Concerts: Antient music, 1787 -- Music: Serenata 'Solomon' by William Boyce -- Emblems -- Allusion to Jacobites -- Children: bous a kettle drums -- Richmond as a fishwoman -- Music books -- Performers in pyramid shape -- Star-shaped haloes -- Birch rods -- Toys: coral and bells -- Cherubs., Watermark: R A 1801 on the left side of sheet; fleur-de-lis on the right side., Matted to 56 x 71 cm., and Verso of former mount (49 x 60 cm), now laid in, with image in reverse of La belle assemblee.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 10th, 1787 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir, 1749-1789, Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Mawbey, Joseph, Sir, 1730-1798, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Macdonald, Archibald, Sir, 1747-1826, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797, Jefferyes, Elizabeth, active 1787-1791, Ashbridge, John, -1799, Bates, Joah, 1741-1799, and Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802
Subject (Topic):
Canopies, Concerts, Wreaths, Jewelry, Dogs, Demons, Sleeping, Musical instruments, Books, Birds of prey, Baskets, Fish, Swine, Lawyers, Judges, Shovels, Brooms & brushes, Punishment devices, Buttocks, and Cats
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ancient music [graphic].

3.
Lucien's party was the fifth and last party I attended during the Christmas holidays of 1903-04

Creator:
Hollister, Howard K. (Howard Keys), b. 1889
Published / Created:
1904
Call Number:
GEN MSS 317
Collection Title:
Scrapbook
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Scrapbook with printed ephemera annotated in ink with Hollisters narrative descriptions of the items.
Description:
Calling card and concert program dated January 9th, 1904 affixed to scrapbook page.
Subject (Geographic):
Cincinnati (Ohio) --Social life and customs
Subject (Topic):
Christmas., Concerts, and Youth --Ohio --Cincinnati.
Collection Created:
1898-1908
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lucien's party was the fifth and last party I attended during the Christmas holidays of 1903-04

4.
Concert ticket [graphic]

Creator:
Ireland, Jane, active 1792-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 1, 1799.
Call Number:
Hogarth 799.05.01.05 Box 135
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Copy of a concert ticket with a group of eleven musicians playing various instruments in an interior with a Venetian window and curtains behind; with a blank oval at the lower edge of design, presumably intended for a manuscript ticket number. Below image within a single-ruled line, above title: on the left "Mary's Chappel' and on the right "Five at night". After Hogarth
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Illustration for: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth.
Publisher:
Pub. for S. Ireland
Subject (Topic):
Concerts, Musical instruments, and Musicians
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Concert ticket [graphic]

5.
Quackery -- medical minstrels performing for the benefit of their former patients -- no other dead

Creator:
Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1879]
Call Number:
Print20099
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date from Philadelphia Museum of Art., Printmaker supplied by curator., Above image: Puck., Published in Puck, 19 November 1879., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death; Hydropathy.
Publisher:
Puck
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Hydrotherapy, Homeopathy, Phlebotomy, Skeletons, Audiences, Tambourines, Banjos, Medicines, Ducks, and Concerts
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Quackery -- medical minstrels performing for the benefit of their former patients -- no other dead-heads admitted [graphic].

6.
The old maids occasional concert [graphic]

Creator:
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 1, 1795.
Call Number:
795.03.01.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An audience of spinsters (variously caricatured) is entertained by an orchestra and chorus of cats who play instruments but mostly sit before large volumes or scores singing. The stage is decorated with curtains decorated with tassels and supported by grand pillars. To the right a chandelier with candles is partially visible
Description:
Title from text on banner in image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Audiences, Cats, Chandeliers, Concerts, Musical instruments, Single women, and Theater curtains
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The old maids occasional concert [graphic]

7.
Vaux-hall [graphic]

Creator:
Pollard, Robert, 1755-1838, printmaker
Published / Created:
[28 June 1785]
Call Number:
785.06.28.01 Framed, shelved in Object Room Rack 1.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An evening scene in Vauxhall Gardens. On the extreme left is the orchestra with the organ behind and performers on the kettledrums, string and wind instruments. The vocalist, Mrs. Weichsel, sings, in profile to the right, from the adjacent (and slightly lower) balcony, just above the heads of the crowd. A violinist and another musician are seated behind her. In the supper box beneath the orchestra is Dr. Johnson seated full-face, between Boswell and Goldsmith (d. 1774), who face each other in profile, both caricatured; of two stout women one is reputed to be Mrs. Thrale. Many groups fill the foreground and middle distance. The two centre figures are the Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Duncannon arm in arm. A naval officer with a wooden leg and a patch over one eye is reputed to be Admiral Paisley (Admiral Pasley, 1734-1808?). Major Topham, an excellent portrait, stands (left) in profile to the right staring through an eyeglass. Between Topham and the supper-box are two men, one of whom is identified as Lord Camelford. [In the reproduction in Angelo's 'Reminiscences'; to whom the name refers is not clear.] An elderly parson, [he closely resembles the parson of BMSat 7059 who is probably William Jackson of the 'Morning Post'] reputed to be Bate Dudley but not resembling him, gazes at the Duchess from behind a tree. Next him a man dressed as an officer in a Highland regiment with kilt and broadsword is supposed to be James Perry, editor of the 'Morning Chronicle'. On the right the Prince of Wales, conspicuous by his star, whispers to Mrs. Robinson (Perdita), though their liaison was ended. Her right arm is linked with an ugly and elderly little man, probably Robinson. On the extreme left an elderly couple advance arm in arm in profile. Behind the Prince is a group standing on a small platform (or tables), showing half length above the crowd. In the foreground (right) is a supper-table under trees where two cits entertain two courtesans. Lamp-lit trees and the covered way form a background on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vauxhall
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 28th 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England), London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818., Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1737-1793, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Pasley, Thomas, Sir, 1734-1808, Perry, James, 1756-1821, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, and Topham, Edward, 1751-1820
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Parks, Audiences, Concerts, Couples, Crowds, Musicians, Orchestras, Peg legs, and Singers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Vaux-hall [graphic]

8.
Comforts of Bath. [graphic]. Pl. 2

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[6 January 1798]
Call Number:
Print00260
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Second plate of twelve, designed to illustrate Christopher Anstey's The new Bath guide., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Republished in 1857 by Robert Walker. See no. 9321 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Health spas.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 6th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Name):
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Music, Concerts, Audiences, Musicians, Singers, Obesity, and Sleeping
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Comforts of Bath. [graphic]. Pl. 2

9.
Vauxhall Garden [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1809]
Call Number:
Quarto 646 808 M58 v.3
Collection Title:
V. 3 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the new orchestra stand in Vauxhall Gardens at night; lights illuminating front, elegantly dressed figures dancing or watching orchestra in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vauxhall Gardens
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 88., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 204., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.9 x 23.6 cm, on sheet 34.2 x 26.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England), London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Gardens, Concerts, Orchestras, and Dance
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Vauxhall Garden [graphic]

10.
Vauxhall Garden [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1809]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10
Collection Title:
V. 3 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View of the new orchestra stand in Vauxhall Gardens at night; lights illuminating front, elegantly dressed figures dancing or watching orchestra in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vauxhall Gardens
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 88., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 204., and Mounted on leaf 34 of volume 10 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England), London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Gardens, Concerts, Orchestras, and Dance
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vauxhall Garden [graphic]

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