Concert of vocal & instrumental music, or, The rising generation of Orpheus [graphic].

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Title: Concert of vocal & instrumental music, or, The rising generation of Orpheus [graphic].
Alternative Title: Concert of vocal and instrumental music
Rising generation of Orpheus
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 May 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A domestic concert with a lady playing the piano, accompanied by male violinist, cellist and flautist, while a man sings behind; a man listening throws up his hands in horror."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified from an original drawing in the Huntington Library.
One of a series of Drolls.
Eleven lines of verse in three columns below title: Orpheus was music master of the woods ...
Plate numbered '84' in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: allusion to Orpheus -- Musical scores -- Musical instruments: cello, with head carved at top -- Pianoforte -- Violin -- Flute or recorder -- Amateur musicians -- Songs: God Save the King.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 23 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817
Subject (Topic): Musicians
Musicial instruments
Subjects: Musicians
Musicial instruments
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1794
England > London > 1794

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