Ars-musica [graphic]

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Title: Ars-musica [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: North, Brownlow, 1778-1829, artist.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [16 February 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Feby. 16th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "A grinning woman sits full-face behind a square piano, playing with complacent vigour. At her feet is a dog. She accompanies an elderly violinist (left) and 'cellist (right), who both regard her with rage; the former has ceased playing. The 'cellist's contorted features are copied in BMSat 9605."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing north.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Musical instruments: piano -- Cello -- Violin or viola -- Pets: pug.
Provenance: Old Print Shop ; Mar. 1961 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24 x 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England Cambridge 1800
Artists' devices
Material: etching with aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1800
England > Cambridge > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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