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- Published / Created:
- [not before July 1817?]
- Call Number:
- 817.07.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Animals in human situations, Cats, Mice, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Concert of cats] [graphic].
