Ars-musica

Gillray, James (1757-1815)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1800

Height:

22.0 cm  (8 11/16 in.)

Width:

28.6 cm  (11 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

engraving, hand coloured on paper with aquatint

Description

A woman sits at a keyboard instrument, playing it. To her left sits a man holding a violin in playing position with the bow in his left hand. To her right sits a man playing a viol.

Iconclass

48C753
more than one musician with instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Keyboard instruments [2230]
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. 12. RILM 1985-6899.

RIdIM record id

5116