Two goats in fine dress dance together, accompanied by two musicians playing an oboe(?) and a bass. In the right foreground is a large drum
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., 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 to 27 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Dancers, Goats, Monkeys, Minuets, and Musicians
Contents: songs, arias, and keyboard and other instrumental music in various hands, including music in the hand of Princess Augusta (initialled, Windsor December 1st 1787); an early version of Yankee Doodle; music by Weidemann and Vinci; two sets of six minuets, possibly by Sir William Parsons, possibly in the hand of Frederick Nicolay (For Her Majesty’s Birth Day, 1788); music by Mattia Vento, performed by Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci; military music for the Coldstream Guards; and sketch possibly in the hand of Charles Frederick Horn
Alternative Title:
Yankee Doodle
Description:
Blanks not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840, Band of the Coldstream Guards (Great Britain), Horn, Charles Frederick, 1762-1830, Parsons, William, Sir, 1746-1817 , Tenducci, Giusto Ferdinando, ca. 1735-1790, and Vento, Mattia, 1735-1776
Subject (Topic):
Keyboard instrument music, Minuets, Vocal music, and Yankee Doodle (Song)
