Festival in ancient Rome

Vierge, Daniel Urrabieta (1851-1904)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. late 19th century

Height:

20.6 cm  (8 1/8 in.)

Width:

27.0 cm  (10 5/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, heightened with traces of lead white, on cream wove card

Description

Several men playing cornus; a man playing a keyed ophicleide or a bassoon (?); another figure (not visible) playing a bass drum and cymbals.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Cornu [4390] (Several men playing cornus)
Ophicleide [4299] (Perhaps a bassoon?)
Bass drum [2506]
Cymbals [2451]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 362dr93. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1680