A chorus of singers
Hogarth, William (1697-1764)
- Cantor Arts Center (Stanford University)
[Museum inv. no.: 2004.3]Provenance: Ex. coll. Jonathan Bober, Curator of Prints, Drawings and European Paintings at the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin. Bober acquired the print in 1988 from Andrew Edmunds, who had just taken it from a bound album of Hogarths, which had probably been in some English manor since c. 1800; R.E. Lewis and Daughter Original Prints (dealer), San Rafael, CA
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Description
A caricature of a chorus in lines one above the other with the foremost group sitting with a desk before them and with the conductor at the top. He has a sheet of paper lying in front of him with the title: "Judith: An Oratorio; or, Sacred Drama by" [William Huggins]. He leads the chorus with his voice and uplifted right hand with the palm outwards. His bald head may have lost its wig, and he is wearing glasses. Of the two singers below his arm, the one wearing a bag-wig is probably John Ireland, a castrato. The music sheets that all of the singers are reading shows the text: "the world shall Bow to the Assyrian Throne." The music is in D major and cut time meter. Many of the singers are wearing powdered wigs and one is wearing a hat. Behind the singer with the hat rises the neck and head of a double bass, and the head is in the shape of a lion's head. One singer on the right is using a reading glass to be able to see his music. In the left bottom corner, there are four boy singers. The remaining twelve singers are all men.People as subjects
Ireland, John (1879-1962) (Musician)Iconclass
48C7552choir
Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)
Double bass [3111]Musical works
Huggins, William -- Judithlegible music notationOratorio.
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