Mr. Collins teaching his daughter to play the harpsichord

Rigaud, John Francis (1742-1810)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1789
Height:
91.4 cm  (36 in.)
Width:
71.1 cm  (28 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Clonterbrook House
    G. D. Lockett

Description

A young woman sits with her fingers on the keys of the harpsichord while an older man looks over her shoulder. A scrap of music notation is laid on top of the instrument.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harpsichord [2251]

Musical works

legible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1
Reference from Leppert's 'Music and Image' - see bibliographic reference.

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard. Music and image: Domesticity, ideology, and socio-cultural formation in eighteenth-century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) 66. ISBN 0521360293..

RIdIM record id

1633