"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:
Possibly by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"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:
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Blunt, E., artist., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"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:
Caption in design: Musick has charms to sooth the savage breast, to soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak. and Title etched below image.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 1 of 2) | Folder I-21
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Four characters participating in the quintet of the first act finale of Dibdin's "The Quaker" are shown here: Gillian and Floretta look over the garden wall while Steady attempts to keep Solomon from conversation with them.
Alternative Title:
Scene in a farce called The Quaker
Description:
Design includes portraits of the actors John Bannister and William Parsons. See British Museum online catalogue., Plate dated "1783" in lower left corner., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,57.124., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bannister, John,--1760-1836--Portraits., Dibdin, Charles,--1745-1814.--Quaker.--And let the spirit move thee., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Parsons, William,--1736-1795--Portraits., and Riviere & Son Binding.
Subject (Topic):
Garden walls., Singing. , and Theatrical productions.
A fat woman sits on a sofa next to a thin man as she sings and plays a lute, apparently very badly given the pained look on the man's face.
Description:
"Price 1/col.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate numbered 'No. 4' in upper right corner., Printmaker from Grego., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
