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Ars-musica
Title
Ars-musica [graphic] / [compass pointing north] Esqr. del.
Publication
London : Pubd. Feby. 16th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, [16 February 1800]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with aquatint ; sheet 24 x 33 cm
Medium
wove paper
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Musical instruments: piano -- Cello -- Violin or viola -- Pets: pug.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing north.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"A grinning woman sits full-face behind a square piano, playing with complacent vigour. At her feet is a dog. She accompanies an elderly violinist (left) and 'cellist (right), who both regard her with rage; the former has ceased playing. The 'cellist's contorted features are copied in BMSat 9605."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 24, 2008
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9586
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 271
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 500
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1800.
Etchings - England - Cambridge - 1800.
Artists' devices.
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