Nosee [graphic].

Description

Title: Nosee [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: Jan. 1, 1774.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: "Three-quarter length portrait slightly caricatured, of 'Cervetto', or Giacomo Bassevi the 'cellist (1680-1783), noted for his large nose, playing the 'cello. He sits looking downwards and to the right. An open book of music, from which he is not reading, is on a stand behind his left arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
First of three plates on leaf 103.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.1 x 12 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 45 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 103. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1774
Etchings England London 1774
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cervetto, Giacobbe, 1682-1783
Subject (Topic): Musicians
Violoncellos
Subjects: Cervetto, Giacobbe, 1682-1783 > Caricatures and cartoons
Musicians
Violoncellos
England > 1774
England > London > 1774

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