A concert at Montagu house

Laroon, Marcellus, the younger (1679-1772)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1736

Height:

45.3 cm  (17 13/16 in.)

Width:

33.4 cm  (13 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

pen and ink with gray wash, over graphite, squared

Description

A concert in a room of a house. Performers include one male playing harpsichord, another male holding a violoncello, another male playing a violin, another male possibly singing. In the background, an audience of men and women watch, seated. In the far back, a male appears to hang a viola da gamba on the wall. A male figure wearing a sword stands in front of the harpsichord facing away. A violoncello case appears in the foreground propped against a chest.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violoncello [3582]
Harpsichord [2251]
Violin [3573]
Viola da gamba [3604]

Image URLs

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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, 55. RILM 1985-6899.

RIdIM record id

4846