A musical party

Dunthorne, John, II (active 1783-1794)

Item type:

painting

Height:

32.3 cm  (12 11/16 in.)

Width:

49.3 cm  (19 7/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

pencil, pen and gray ink and watercolor

Description

A group of sixteen people gather around a harpsichord. A woman is seated in the center, playing the harpsichord. A man is seated playing cello to the left of the harpsichordist. Three male violinists are gathered around the harpsichord playing their violins. A young woman sits on the floor in front of the harpsichord, apparently singing from printed music.

Iconclass

43B32
club, meeting place

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harpsichord [2251]
Violoncello [3582]
Violin [3573]

Image URLs

image link 1

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) 51-133, fig. 8. RILM 1985-6899.

"Dunthorne, James (c1758-1794)", Suffolk artists, https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=3452.

RIdIM record id

5112