[Musical monster] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Musical monster] [graphic].
Alternative Title: After-dinner music
Contributor: Lens, Bernard, 1659-1725, attributed name.
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1778]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A sea monster lounges on the reed-covered shore next to the ocean, playing a pan flute. A second figure sleeps in the background on the left, the remnants of a meal (oyster shells and fish bones) in front of them
Description: Title from that of another print after the same design.
Another version, probably a copy, of a print engraved and published by John Hamilton Mortimer after his own design. For the likely earlier version published 8 December 1778 with the title "Musical monster", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.3297.
Former attribution to Bernard Lens from local card catalog record. Lewis Walpole Library impression is mounted in a volume opposite biographical information about Bernard Lens.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted to 23 x 18 cm.
Bound in opposite page 128 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Catalogue of engravers, who have been born or resided in England. Strawberry-Hill, printed in the year MDCCLXV [1765].
Provenance: Spencer; July 1936.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21.9 x 16.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: No linguistic content

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 33 10B v.5 Copy 2
Collection Title: Opposite page 128. Catalogue of engravers, who have been born or resided in England.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Strawberry-Hill, printed in the year MDCCLXV [1765]