"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.
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Plate numbered '253' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd 8th Jany., 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
The continental harmony, : containing a number of anthems, fuges, and chorusses, in several parts
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Collection Created:
Printed, typographically, at Boston : by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. Sold at their bookstore, no. 45, Newbury Street; by said Thomas in Worcester; and by the booksellers in Boston, and elsewhere.--, 1794