Playing in parts

Gillray, James (1757-1815)

Item type:

print

Technique / Medium:

printing

Description

A group of musicians gather around a keyboard instrument. A seated woman plays the keyboard, a seated man plays a viol to the left, two men standing in the background play flutes, a man standing on the right plays a violin. A dog sits on the floor with front left paw on a notated music book. Several figures appear in the background on the right and left.

Iconclass

43B32
club, meeting place

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Keyboard instruments [2230]
Flute [3955]
Violin [3573]
Viol [3597]

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. 10. RILM 1985-6899.

RIdIM record id

5114