Playing in parts [graphic] / B. [compass pointing north] Esqr. del. ; Js. Gy. fect.

[London] : Publish'd May 15th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, [15 May 1801]

1 print : etching with aquatint, engraving, & stipple engraving ; plate mark 25.6 x 36.1 cm, on sheet 29 x 40 cm

wove paper

Temporary local subject terms: Carpets -- Musicians -- Flautist -- Violinist -- Cellist -- Piano -- Flute -- Violin -- Pianist -- Cello.

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.

"Amateur musicians, the design based on 'Ars-Musica', BMSat 9586, altered, and much elaborated. Four ugly and elderly men grouped round a young woman who sits, full face, at a square piano lit by a guttering candle. She lifts her hands to thump, with grim determination. A 'cellist is on her right, a vast gouty leg thrust forward, a violinist on her left. Behind her are two flautists. Behind (left), a young officer and a girl flirt, hand in hand. In the background (right) are visitors: two military officers shake hands, one bowing so that his sword lifts up the petticoats of a fat lady walking off to the right. A dog howls with one paw on a music-book."--British Museum online catalogue.

English

August 11, 2008