A little music or the delights of harmony

Gillray, James (1757-1815)

Item type:

print

Height:

22.0 cm  (8 11/16 in.)

Width:

28.6 cm  (11 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

engraving, hand coloured on paper

Description

A group of seven people gather around a keyboard instrument to play instruments and sing. A woman is seated at the keyboard, playing and singing. A man stands behind her singing. A boy stands to the right behind the keyboard instrument playing an end-blown flute. A man stands to the left of the keyboard instrument playing a transverse flute. A man and a woman stand to the left in the background singing from printed music. A man sits in a chair in the far left and appears to sleep. A cat stands on a music book on the floor in the right foreground.

Iconclass

43B3
indoor recreation

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Keyboard instruments [2230]
End-blown flute [3940]
Transverse flute [4093]

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. 11. RILM 1985-6899.

RIdIM record id

5115