The instruments of music: cast of a cartouche in the Boston Public Library

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

1903-1916

Height:

29.8 cm  (11 3/4 in.)

Width:

38.4 cm  (15 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

plaster

Place of creation:

Boston (Massachusetts, United States)

Description

Depicts multiple musical instruments layered on top of (and partially obscuring) each other (some not clearly identifiable): straight trumpets, recorders, lyre, tambourine, bells, small cymbals[?], harp[?], small drum[?].

Iconclass

48C73
musical instruments; group of musical instruments
48A9876
ornament ~ cartouche

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Drum [2585] (Perhaps a small kettledrum or naker)
Percussion instruments [2370]
Wind instruments [3730]
End-blown trumpet [6556]
Recorder [4039]
Tambourine [2746]
Harp [3285] (Two half-circle frames with strings)
Bell [2381]
Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5575