The harp that once through Tara's halls

Glenn, Mary (1813-?)

Item type:

textile, clothing and costume

Height:

75.5 cm  (29 3/4 in.)

Width:

87.0 cm  (34 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

Silk, satin weave; embroidered with silk and silk chenille yarns in satin, single satin, split, and stem stitches; couching; painted; lined and edged with linen, plain weave

Description

A man, outside castle walls, playing a harp whose strings are breaking.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]

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) 284da91. RILM 1988-275.

Notes

The title refers to a text by Thomas Moore (1779-1852) written for an Irish folk tune.

RIdIM record id

1705