Concerto spirituale (Johann Christian Bach and Karl Friedrich Abel)

Rowlandson, Thomas (1756 or 1757-1827)

Item type:

drawing

Height:

19.4 cm  (7 5/8 in.)

Width:

16.4 cm  (6 7/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

Pen and brush with brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper

Description

Caricature of J. C. Bach playing an oboe (no details) and K. F. Abel playing a viola da gamba (frets are shown).

People as subjects

Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782) (Composer)
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787) (Composer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Oboe [4232]
Viola da gamba [3604]

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) 7 (130dr82). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1991