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Concert of cats
Title
Concert of cats [graphic].
Publication
[London] : R. Ackermann's Lithography, July, 1817.
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 14.9 x 22.9 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title from caption below image.
"Vol. 3 No. 18".
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Summary
A group of cats look at book opened to a musical score, on the right and images of mice on the left. Some of the cats are singing while one plays a trumpet; one of the cats wears spectacles. In the foreground are several other musical instruments including a violin and other volumes. The book is propped against a birdhouse from which emerges a mouse; a cloth has been draped over the birdhouse.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 08, 2010
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1817.
Lithographs - England - London - 1817.
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