Portrait of Maria and Catherine, the daughters of Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

Romney, George (1734-1802)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1783

Height:

152.7 cm  (60 1/8 in.)

Width:

121.6 cm  (47 7/8 in.)

framed: 173.99 × 142.56 cm (68 1/2 × 56 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Portrait of two daughters of British lawyer and politician Baron Edward Thurlow (1731-1806); both are standing beside a fortepiano, one with her hands on the keyboard, the other leaning her head and left arm on the left side of the music rack and resting her left foot on the instrument's single pedal; the instrument also has a hand stop or stops; an open book with musical notation is on the music rack.

People as subjects

Thurlow, Maria (born 1770s)
Thurlow, Catherine (born 1770s)
Thurlow, Edward, Baron (1731-1806)

Iconclass

61B2(MARIA THURLOW) (CATHERINE TURLOW)12
historical person (MARIA THURLOW) - historical person (CATHERINE THURLOW) in a double-portrait
31D1222
girl (child between toddler and youth)
48C7523
one person playing keyboard instrument
48C751
one person with musical instrument, not playing
48C7333
pianoforte
48C74
notation of music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Pianoforte [2299] (with pedal and hand stop(s))

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Hirt, Franz Josef. Stringed keyboard instruments, 1440-1880, trans. by M. Boehme-Brown (Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, 1968).

RIdIM record id

6070