Members of the Maynard family in the park at Waltons

Devis, Arthur (1712-1787)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1755-1762

Height:

138.5 cm  (54 1/2 in.)

Width:

195.6 cm  (77 in.)

framed: 158.8 x 217.2 x 7 cm (62 1/2 x 85 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

A woman plays an English guitar (type of cittern). She sits on a bench placed under a tree in the expansive grounds of a country house.

Iconclass

48CC7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked) - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

English guitar [3107]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. "Men, women, and music at home: the influence of cultural values on musical life in eighteenth-century England". Imago musicae 2 (1985) 51-133, fig. 33. RILM 1985-6899.

RIdIM record id

4021