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1. "Here's songs of love & maids forsaken" [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 March 1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.03.30.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elderly woman sits on a stool playing a small harpsichord (right) seen in profile, a music-book upon it. She sings with her head turned towards the spectator, her features twisted, eyes closed. Her hair hangs upon her round shoulders; the curves of her figure and a small waist indicate an attempt to conceal the ravages of time. The line is shaky throughout, to give an impression (especially in the music-book) of an aged, quavering voice."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Here's songs of love and maids forsaken
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Possibly by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Musical instruments: harpsichords -- Music sheets.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 30th by H. Humphrey, Old Bond St., 93
- Subject (Topic):
- Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Here's songs of love & maids forsaken" [graphic].
2. "Lullaby!" Sooth him with a lullaby! scene Kegworth / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 July 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.07.12.02 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A lady, ugly and elderly, sits at a piano in profile to the left, playing and singing. Her open music-book shows her 'Song: would you hurt a harm less maid maid I am young and sore afraid afraid'. Beside her in an arm-chair a fat man with short clumsy legs sits impassively. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- "Lullaby!" Soothe him with a lullaby!
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Musical instruments: pianoforte -- Songs: Would you hurt a harmless maid -- Sheet music -- Obesity -- Reference to Kegworth, Leicestershire.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 12th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess' [sic] Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Lullaby!" Sooth him with a lullaby! scene Kegworth / [graphic]
3. A Catalanian pic nic society at private rehearsal [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 12, 1807.
- Call Number:
- 807.03.12.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Six members of the society sit in a row, each singing a different song. All are ugly and elderly except one lady who turns to her neighbour singing, "In sweetest harmony we live." The latter, almost bald, sits on the extreme left, singing, "Time has not thinn'd my flowing hair." A fat, ugly lady bawls towards her left hand neighbour: "Encompass'd in [an] angels frame." He sings to her: "Together let us ran[ge] the fields." A man with closed eyes from which tears fall, sings: "Said a smile to a tear what cause have you hear." A gouty, old naval officer on the extreme right sings: "Oh exquisite harmony!! Music has charms to soften rocks and bend the knotted oak." A dishevelled footman with a bottle in his coat-pocket walks from the right, tilting his salver of glasses so that they fall on a squalling cat. He sings tipsily: "From night till morn I take my glass I hopes to forget my Chloe!!" A dog on the left howls
- Alternative Title:
- Catalanian picnic society at private rehearsal
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Crying, Dogs, Organizations, Rehearsals, Servants, Singing, and Sleeping
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Catalanian pic nic society at private rehearsal [graphic]
4. A Portugal catch for three voices [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [October 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.10.00.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three men sit, singing a catch, with a round table between them. A British officer (perhaps Cotton), wearing a cocked hat, sits in profile to the right, facing Dalrymple who sits (right) with tightly closed mouth, his hands on his knees. Between them, but with his chair from Dalrymple, sits a man in Spanish (here Portuguese) dress, wearing a feathered hat. The British officer sings: T'was You Sir-Hew - Twas Hew. that let the French Escape, That makes you look so blue Sir-Hew Sir Hew! He and the Portuguese (perhaps Freire) point minatory hands at Dalrymple, whose face is painted lead colour. On the wall are two pictures: (above the Portuguese) 'A correct representation of the French Plunderers stopt in their progress by the Spanish Patriots.' [at Baylen] and (above Dalrymple): 'A Correct representation of the French Plunderers quitting Portugal for France - under a British Escort.' In one a long train of wagons is stopped by armed men, in the other are ships in full sail. On the table are glasses and decanters of 'Port and Calcavella'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: E& P.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Octr. 1808 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain. and Portugal.
- Subject (Name):
- Cotton, Charles, Sir, 1753-1812 and Dalrymple, Hew Whiteford, Sir, 1750-1830
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Generals, British, Military officers, Singing, Wine, Drinking vessels, and Pictures
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Portugal catch for three voices [graphic].
5. A ballad singer. A match woman. A dealer in greens [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1824]
- Call Number:
- 824.00.00.30+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the left a young woman sings while accompanying herself on a guitar. In the center a older woman leans toward the elderly man on the right as the two discuss the desirability of a match between the young lady and a young man from the Green family. The young lady and her matchmaker are both elaborately dressed
- Alternative Title:
- Match woman and Dealer in greens
- Description:
- Title from captions below images., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Marriage, Courtship, and Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A ballad singer. A match woman. A dealer in greens [graphic].
6. A glee Une allegresse. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, [1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.00.00.104+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6912; a similar group of men in a similar room stand or sit at a rectangular table singing from a large music-book held open on the table. Punch-bowl, wine-bottle, glasses, pipes, a tumbler are on the table which is covered by a heavy cloth. Their expressions are more serious than those of the catch-singers. Two men in the background are smoking, one of whom is lighting his pipe. A dog sits in the foreground looking up at the singers. The words of the glee are engraved beneath the print, beginning: 'Which is the properest Day to drink, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,'; republished state."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Allegresse
- Description:
- Title from item., Artist from description in Sotheby's catalog., Publication date assigned by the repository based on the series number., Twelve lines of verse below image., Numbered '567' in series., and Temporary local subject terms: Glee Club -- Punch bowls -- Wine bottles -- Glass: wine glasses -- Tablecloths -- Interiors: Robert Smith's house in St. Paul's Church Yard -- Carpets.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Singing, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Wine, Drinking vessels, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A glee Une allegresse. [graphic]
7. A little music, or, The delights of harmony [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1810?]
- Call Number:
- 810.00.00.72
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A young woman plays the piano (right) with painful intentness, and sings, as does the man who holds open her music-book, inscribed 'On Rosy Bed by Tinckling Billy'. A middle-aged military officer stands full face playing the flute. A fat elderly 'cit' sleeps in an arm-chair (left); his wig has fallen off and his legs rest on another chair. Behind him a very obese man and an ugly and over-dressed woman with a grotesquely thin neck sing from the same piece of music: 'On Rosy Bed'. He warms his back at a blazing fire; the feathers in her hair are alight in one of the candles on the chimney-piece. A small boy blows a toy trumpet, a dog howls and a cat miaows, standing on an open music-book inscribed 'Water Part ....' Chinese figures on the chimney-piece and the lintel of the door represent comic musicians playing different instruments."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Delights of harmony
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats, Children, Dogs, Figurines, Musical instruments, Musicians, Pianos, Sconces, and Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A little music, or, The delights of harmony [graphic]
8. A musical family [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [30 August 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.08.30.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The instrumentalists are closely grouped round the armchair of the father of the family, a stout man in old-fashioned dress, who sits full face singing loudly, an open music book on his knees, his feet supported on the bar of his chair. His very fat wife sits beside him (right) blowing a trumpet to the grotesque inflation of cheek and neck. The eldest daughter (left) plays the double-bass; behind her stands a girl beating a tambourine. The younger children flank the design: a fat little girl (left) plays the triangle, looking up at her sister's tambourine. On the right a little boy sits at his mother's feet beating a large kettle-drum and shouting; he sits on two large volumes: 'Doctor Burneys Musical Travels [i.e., The Present State of Music in France and Italy ... 1771', and 'The Present State of Music in Germany . . . [etc.]', 2 v. 1773]. Mother and daughters are fashionably dressed; the daughters are comely. A howling dog seated on the extreme left adds to the impression of violent noise."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Caption in design: Musick has charms to sooth the savage breast, to soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak.
- Publisher:
- Pub'd Augst. 30th, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Families, Musical instruments, and Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A musical family [graphic]
9. An Italian family [graphic]
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [December 1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.12.00.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An Italian family, in a poverty-stricken room, practise for opera. A young man stands full-face, singing, his fingers interlaced across his chest. He wears an open, ruffled shirt, awaistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings. To his right an old man plays an enormous 'cello. To his left a middle-aged man, seated in profile singing, plays a low harpsichord; he wears open ruffled shirt and breeches, with bare legs. Beside him on the extreme left a little boy dressed in a shirt plays the violin. On the extreme right a pretty young woman sits over the fire with an infant on her knee; she holds out a cloth to dry, looking over her shoulder to sing. Her score ('Affetuoso') is pinned to the chimney-piece, on which stands a crucifix with a tankard, &c. A lean greyhound howls up the chimney. All but the old man have fashionably dressed hair, and a certain elegance. The room is lit from an open casement window (left); there are dark cast shadows and the bare room has no ceiling. On the wall are a print of 'Vestris' dancing, a sword, a play-bill: 'l'Avaro Deluso' (opera by Paisiello, libretto by Vulpius), and a bunch of farthing dips; on the window ledge a cracked mirror, cocked hat, bottles, &c. Beneath the harpsichord is a large bowl labeled 'Macaroni'; and in the foreground lie a violin, music-books, earthenware pots, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 1785 by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho. Sold by W. Hinton, No. 5 Sweeting Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Name):
- Vulpius, Christian August, 1762-1827, Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816, and Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Families, Italian, Mothers, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An Italian family [graphic]
