Instructing Little Miss Wren

Sneyd, John (1763-1835)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1815
Technique / Medium:
watercolor

    Item location

  • Bath Central Library
    [Museum inv. no.: B741.59 SNE p24]

Description

From a series of 63 clever humorous original watercolour drawings. Sneyd's illustrations to Christopher Anstey's The Bath Guide original coloured drawings c.1815. Text: "But Jack Dilettante despises the Play'rs, To concerts and musical parties repairs. Or little Miss Wren, who's an excellent Singer, Then he points to the notes, with a ring on his finger, and shews her the crotchet, the quaver, and bar, All the time that she warbles, and plays the guitar."

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

English guitar [3107]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Spring, Matthew. “Benjamin Milgrove, the Musical ’Toy Man’, and the ‘Guittar’ in Bath 1757–1790”, Early music 41/2 (May 2013) 317–29, illus. 4. RILM 2013-09572. DOI: 10.1093/em/cat044

RIdIM record id

4270