The Bagnigge organfist [graphic].

Description

Title: The Bagnigge organfist [graphic].
Alternative Title: Bagnigge organgist
Published / Created: pubd. for the benifit [sic] of decayed musicians, [1790?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A man in a tricorne hat sits playing an organ with a score open in front of him. On the ground leaning against the organ are two volumes one with a label 'Davis' and a walking stick
Description: Title etched below image.
Text following title: What passion cannot music raise & quell when C..... struck his corded shell the listning drunkards stood around and wondring on their facaes fell. Vide Dry. Ode to S. Cecillia night.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Bagnigge Wells -- Ode to St. Cecillia's Night.
Unidentified pencil note identifying organist as Charles Griffiths.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 16.4 x 8.7 cm, on sheet 35 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1790
Etchings England London 1790
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Musicial instruments
Musicians
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Musicial instruments
Musicians
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1790
England > London > 1790

Access: Public
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