Concert of cats [graphic].

Description

Title: Concert of cats [graphic].
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: July, 1817.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Ackermann's Lithography
Abstract: A group of cats look at book opened to a musical score, on the right and images of mice on the left. Some of the cats are singing while one plays a trumpet; one of the cats wears spectacles. In the foreground are several other musical instruments including a violin and other volumes. The book is propped against a birdhouse from which emerges a mouse; a cloth has been draped over the birdhouse
Description: Title from caption below image.
"Vol. 3 No. 18".
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xv.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14.9 x 22.9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1817
Lithographs England London 1817
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Animals in human situations
Cats
Mice
Musical instruments
Musicians
Singers
Subjects: Animals in human situations
Cats
Mice
Musical instruments
Musicians
Singers
England > 1817
England > London > 1817

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