Recorder player and women

Unknown (British)

Item type:

textile, clothing and costume

Date of creation:

late 17th-early 18th c.

Height:

205.6 cm  (80 15/16 in.)

Width:

132.0 cm  (52 in.)

Technique / Medium:

Linen and cotton, plain weave; embroidered with wool yarns in short, long, outline and satin stitches; French knots

Additional titles

Description

A man plays a recorder for four women, one of whom plays a tambourine and dances.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Recorder [4039]
Tambourine [2746]

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) 8 (155da82). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1987