Pig playing a harp

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
1505-1510
Technique / Medium:
wood carving

    Item location

  • Manchester Cathedral (Lancashire, England)
    On a misericord, from the workshops in Ripon

Description

Gothic harp with 12 strings, played by a pig.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 20, plate 51. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4188