Smith, Charles Loraine, of Enderby, 1751-1835, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 June 1782]
Call Number:
782.06.04.04++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Musicians are grouped round a piano. Their names (some misspelled) are written in the margin. The pianist sits in profile to the right looking fixedly at his score; he is Ferdinando Bertoni, a Venetian composer who accompanied his friend Pacchierotti to England. The most prominent of the musicians is Pacchierotti, who stands behind the piano next the pianist, holding open a music book, but smiling at a lady, who sits (right) on a bench among the performers. She is Lady Mary Duncan, whose admiration for Pacchierotti's singing was the talk of the town, carried to the point of absurdity, and of discourtesy to other singers. (Walpole, 'Letters', xii. 141, 3 Jan. 1782, and xv. 16-17, 4 July 1791.) She is the largest figure in the design, out of scale with the other figures. She sits in profile to the right holding up a closed fan, gazing intently at Pacchierotti. Behind her stands the player of the bass, identified as Cariboldi. Seated on the bench next her, on her right hand and wearing spectacles, is a man playing the oboe, identified as Hayford. Seated in a chair in front of Lady Mary and on the pianist's right hand is the cellist, Cervetto, evidently the younger Cervetto (1747-1837), who played at the professional concerts at the Hanover Square Rooms from 1780. Behind the piano stand (left to right) a violinist, identified as Salpietro, an oboist, J. C. Fischer (1733-1800), who was a great attraction at the Bach-Abel and Vauxhall concerts, and another violinist, Langani or Langoni. To the right of the piano, blowing the French horn, stands Pieltain. In the foreground (right) in profile to the left sits Miss Wilkes on a stool, her hands in a muff, smiling at Dr. Burney, who stands bending towards her, his hands held out. He wears a bag-wig and sword, and appears to be deep in conversation in spite of the singing of Pacchierotti, a fashionable habit much condemned by his daughter Frances, see 'Cecilia'. Behind Miss Wilkes on the right stands another of the audience, holding his hat under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from attribution in the British Museum online catalogue., Publisher's name is fictitious., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. 4th June 1782 by M. Rack, London
Subject (Name):
Bertoni, Ferdinando, 1725-1813, Pacchierotti, Gasparo, 1744-1821, Duncan, Mary Tufton, Lady, 1723-1806, Cervetto, James, 1747 or 9-1837, Fischer, Johann Christian, 1733-1800, Wilkes, Mary, 1750-1802, and Burney, Charles, 1726-1814
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Concerts, Harpsichords, Musicians, and Musical instruments
A celebration in a sporting club. In the center of the room before a large table, a man in a hat (with a black eye?) raises a gavel in an attempt to bring order as two members begin a fist-fight and others converse and laugh. One member restrains a woman as she attempts to hit a man on the head with a tankard; the man appears already unconscious and injured. Boxing gloves, tankards and glasses, hats, and a stick are scattered on the floor in the foreground. The room is lighted by the candles in a candelier. On the walls are a clock, two pictures of fighers -- one of Humphrys and the other of Mendoza; a broadside "Rules" (damaged); a broadside entitled "Last dying speech & confession of W[...]st the Boxer" with a picture of a gallows at the head; and, a picture of two men boxing (the pictures amplifying the subject). On the table are several tankards, wine glasses and punch bowl, smoking pipes, a broadsheet torn in two (World Diary), and a book "Rules for boxing"., Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., The left portion of the plate was later published as 'Frontispiece' (no date) in Carlton House magazine with the title: The ending of the old year., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title, printmaker's signature, and partial loss of imprint., Plate from: The Attic miscellany, v. 1, p. 81., Title added in a contemporary hand on the mount below the image: Odd-Fellows-Lodge., and Mounted to 24 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by Bentley & Co.
Subject (Name):
Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, Mendoza, Daniel, 1764-1836, and Humphries, Richard, d. 1827
"Print showing George IV, in the title role of Mozart's opera, surprised by the sudden arrival of his wife, Caroline, as Donna Anna, lately returned from Italy, during the wedding feast scene, at which a number of bare breasted women are present; on the left, Lord Castlereagh, playing the role of Leporello, holds a long list of the King's female conquests."--Library of Congress online catalog
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Don Giovanni by His M-y, Donna Anna by a celebrated actress, her first appearance on this stage these 7 years, Leporello by Derry Down Triangle, the other caricters [sic] by the Corps de Ballet., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 20 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. July 23, 1820, by H. Fores, 16 Panton St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Subject (Topic):
Operas & operettas, Adultery, Surprise, Banquets, Dining tables, and Chandeliers
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 12138 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9; originally published Apr. 28, 1813, by H. Humphrey., Temporary local subject terms: Election balls -- Lighting: Chandeliers., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 67.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Balls (Parties), Chandeliers, Couples, Dance, and Musicians
"Eight elderly topers with pipes and glasses surround a small oblong table, on which are punch-bowl, wine-glasses, tobacco, &c. All are much caricatured; some sing, a parson sleeps, a dog howls. The room is lit by a chandelier; a bracket-clock points to 3.40, on it is carved a Bacchanalian figure of Time astride a cask. A bust portrait of Anacreon holding pen and paper is on the wall (left)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of quoted text above image: "Whilst, snug in our club-room, we jovially 'twine the myrtle of Wenus with Bacchus's wine.", Numbered in black ink lower right in an unknown hand: 505. Remnants of former blue mounting on verso., and 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 31.4 cm, on sheet 32.9 x 34.9 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"View within the amphitheatre, near Westminster Bridge, on Surrey side; a central circular arena around which a man rides standing on the back of two horses, another man in ring directing horses, spectators seated around sides, and on balconies on three levels, a large stage with black curtain at the back, a chandelier hanging from the ceiling."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 4., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 23., and Watermark: 1807.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Astley's Amphitheatre.
Subject (Topic):
Audiences, Events, Interiors, Amphitheaters, Horses, and Chandeliers
Title from item., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Two columns of verse in English on left below image: Here, may the wand[e]ring eye with pleasure see Both knaves and foolls [sic] in borrow[e]d shapes agree ..., Two columns of verse in Dutch on right below image: Hier kan 't Nieuwsgierig oog met Lust en ruymte weyen ..., Plate 14 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., Temporary local subject terms: Architecture: assembly room., and Watermark in the right part of sheet.
"Satire on the affair of Admiral Byng, showing his ghost appearing to Newcastle, Anson and Hardwicke who are seen through a transparent screen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: One night to indulge their vile thoughts tete a tete ..., Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings -- Pictures amplifying subject: French rooster carrying off a map of Minorca -- Furniture., and Mounted to 30 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Byng, John, 1704-1757, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
"A young man, in military dress, of elegant and effeminate appearance, sprawls on a sofa, looking towards a young woman (right) who leans towards him. She is of meretricious appearance, and wears the quasi-military riding-dress fashionable at this time in connexion with the militia camps of Coxheath and Warley. The room is luxuriously furnished. A round table with a wine bottle and glass is partly visible on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Captain Jessamy learning the proper discipline of the couch
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '471' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Militia camps -- Militia uniforms -- Nosegays -- Lighting -- Furniture: pedestal table -- Military female costume -- Female costume: military & feathered hats., Watermark., Imperfect; publication date at end of imprint has been erased from sheet., Subjects identified below plate line in a later hand as Captain Bisset and Lady Worsley., and Matted to 62 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Flowers, Wallpapers, Chandeliers, Shutters, Windows, Tables, and Hats
