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1. Concert of vocal & instrumental music, or, The rising generation of Orpheus [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1794]
- Call Number:
- 794.05.12.11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A domestic concert with a lady playing the piano, accompanied by male violinist, cellist and flautist, while a man sings behind; a man listening throws up his hands in horror."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Concert of vocal and instrumental music and Rising generation of Orpheus
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker identified from an original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of Drolls., Eleven lines of verse in three columns below title: Orpheus was music master of the woods ..., Plate numbered '84' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: allusion to Orpheus -- Musical scores -- Musical instruments: cello, with head carved at top -- Pianoforte -- Violin -- Flute or recorder -- Amateur musicians -- Songs: God Save the King.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817
- Subject (Topic):
- Musicians and Musicial instruments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Concert of vocal & instrumental music, or, The rising generation of Orpheus [graphic].
