Anonymous manuscript collection of verse and prose by various authors. The volume includes "A Peaceable and Friendly Address to the Nonconformists written upon their desiring an Act of Toleration without the Sacramental Test," a possibly unpublished poem by Edmund Waller (1606-87) and works by Rochester, Dryden, Roscommon, Congreve, Sidney Godolphin, Addison and others. A later owner, signing himself Sam.[?pson] Estwick on the endpaper, has used the leaves at the end of the book for historical, scriptural and legal memoranda, and has on p. 37 made a note on "Some anthems proper for our Choire..."
Subject (Name):
Estwick, Sampson,--ca. 1657-1739
Subject (Topic):
Church music, Dissenters, English poetry--17th century, and Test Act--(1673)
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
