A musical party, the Mathias family

Hamilton, Gawen (ca. 1697-1737)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1730s

Height:

63.3 cm  (24 15/16 in.)

Width:

76.4 cm  (30 1/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

A group of six men and two women, play and listen to music, all seated except one man who stands behind the musicians in a room of a house. The musicians, all men, are seated in the center to the left side, one playing violoncello, one holding a bassoon, one holding a violin, and one playing a violin. Two women and a man sit at a table on the right.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violoncello [3582]
Bassoon [3795]
Violin [3573]

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, 56. RILM 1985-6899.

Beckett, R. B. Hogarth (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1949) pl. 22.

RIdIM record id

4847