[Concert of cats] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Concert of cats] [graphic].
Contributor: Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569, artist.
Published / Created: [not before July 1817?]
Publication Place: London? and England London
Publisher: publisher not identified
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 a violin and loose sheets of music. The book is propped against a birdhouse from which emerges a mouse; a cloth has been draped over the birdhouse
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
After a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1855,0609.487.
Two similar prints, with slight variations in the image, were published by Ackermann in July 1817 with the title "Concert of cats". See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 817.07.00.01.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; April 2020.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 12.0 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1817
Lithographs England London 1817
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper hand-colored.
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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