Rural beauty, or, Vaux-Hal Garden
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Description
- Title
- Rural beauty, or, Vaux-Hal Garden
- Alternative Title
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Vaux-Hal Garden
Vauxhall Garden - Creator
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
- Contributor
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Lockman, John, 1698-1771.
Boyce, William, 1711-1779.
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, attributed name. - Published / Created
- [1737?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- G. Bickham
- Abstract
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"View overlooking gardens, showing a band playing from the orchestra on the right; elegantly dressed figures strolling through gardens or seated at tables amongst trees; head-piece illustration to 'The Musical Entertainer', p. 21; with the score of a song below, all printed from the same plate."--British Museum catalogue
- Description
-
Title from item.
Dedication beneath title: To the Rt. Hon. [the] Ld. Visct. Baltimore, these four plates are humbly inscrib'd.
Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas in two columns below.
Opening words: Flora, Goddess, sweetly blooming ...
Plate from: Bickham, G. Musical entertainer.
Musical entertainer is sometimes attributed to George Bickham, Senior.
Plate numbered "21" in upper right corner.
"No. VI."--Lower left corner.
Eighteenth-century watermark. For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Grosvenor Prints; February 2022.
- Extent
- 1 score (1 unnumbered page) : plate mark 32.6 x 20 cm, on sheet 33.5 x 22 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 737.00.00.04
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Songs
Genre prints
Etchings England London 1737
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- 1 etching ;
- Resource Type
- notated music and still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),
- Subject (Topic)
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Songs with piano
Songs with harpsichord
Songs, English - Subjects
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Songs with piano
Songs with harpsichord
Songs, English
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
England > London > 1737
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16143590
- Object ID (OID)
- 33118893