The gentle music of a byegone day

Strudwick, John Melhuish (1849-1937)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1890
Height:
80.2 cm  (31 9/16 in.)
Width:
63.8 cm  (25 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
School:
Pre-Raphaelite

    Item location

  • Private CollectionFrom Christies.com: The Gentle Music of a Byegone Day ... was sold in these Rooms on 11 June 1993 (lot 130) and is now in the Lloyd Webber Collection. It was also included in the show Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection (London, Royal Academy, September-December 2003, no. 88).

Description

Three persons in front of portative organ. On left one holds an open book of illegible music, person on the right playing harp-lute. In the middle a person holds a psaltery. The is an open book of illegible music on the organ.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Portative organ [2267]
Psaltery [3677]
Harp-lute [3255]

Musical works

Two open books of music.illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

4521