The comforts of Bath: the music master

Rowlandson, Thomas (1756 or 1757-1827)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1798

Height:

12.1 cm  (4 3/4 in.)

Width:

18.9 cm  (7 7/16 in.)

mount: 5 3/4 x 8 9/16 inches (14.6 x 21.7 cm) and sheet: 4 3/4 x 7 7/16 inches (12.1 x 18.9 cm)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper

Place of creation:

London (England)

Description

An interior scene with a rotund older man snoozing in a chair which faces a mirror; were he awake, he would be seeing the young music teacher and attractive young lady behind him kissing during the harpsichord lesson.

Iconclass

32A5
caricatures (human types)
31A51111
reflection (in a mirror)
48C7211
musician training pupils, music-lesson
33A14
embracing each other, kissing
33C2
lovers; courting, flirting

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harpsichord [2251]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Barringer, Timothy J. Art & music in Britain: Four encounters, 1730-1900 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2006) 16, 19, 46.


Hayes, John T. Rowlandson: Watercolours and drawings (London: Phaidon, 1972) 50, 57, 59-60, fig. 60.

RIdIM record id

6278