Musicians in a church, with vocalists singing from books in upper level and instrumentalists below, the latter labeled to indicate their nationalities, Prussia, Ger., Ital, Swiss, and on the far right Engl., possibly corresponding to caricature portrait of Dr. Arne. The bass player labeled Ger. may represent Karl Friedrich Abel. To the right the church congregation is indicated, with men in the foreground and women with the fashionable pyramidal hair styles seated in the upper gallery
Description:
Title and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title pencilled below image: The morning concert., and In laid to 30 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787. and Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Church musicians, Church music, Musicians, Churches, and Interiors
Bound autograph manuscript of instrumental and vocal music, including folk songs, love songs, and hymns, most in English, signed by Gascoigne.
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Label on back pastedown: Sold at Peter Welcker's Musick Shop / Gerrard Street St. Ann's Soho., Pages 67-77 paginated but otherwise blank, not digitized., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Gascoigne, Edward and Welcker, Peter, d. 1775
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, Music --18th century, Piano music, and Songs
Lettering in a frame ornamented with a garland of roses
Description:
Title from image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. III: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Front and back covers and front and back flyleaves of volume in same folder.
Title from image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Front cover and front flyleaf of volume in same folder.
Title from Kay., Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Spectacles -- Noses -- Mr. Watson, an Edinburgh messenger.
Title supplied by cataloger., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842), v.i., page 205., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Ticket; on the right, a putto and a woman with wings on her head, lifting a veil to reveal a statue which stands on a pedestal; on the left, an old philosopher seated, next to a globe, with a book open on his lap, turned and looking towards the statue; after Hamilton; proof before title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and date from British Museum online catalogue copy, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.348., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 29 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Title derived from text written in image., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and The artist was an arsonist, but was found not guilty on grounds of insanity and was a patient in Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England).
Subject (Name):
Wallace, William, Sir, -1305.
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Daggers and swords, Straitjackets, and Art and mental illness
