Caricature self-portrait

Burney, Edward Francis (1760-1848)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

first half, 19th century

Height:

21.9 cm  (8 5/8 in.)

Width:

13.7 cm  (5 3/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

pen and brown ink and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper

Description

In this cartoon-like drawing, the artist depicts himself with an astonished look on his face, straddling a stool and playing a violin; a parrot above him has just snatched the wig from his head; also visible are a crane (with crown-like topknot), a dog (howling?), and books (with timely titles).

People as subjects

Burney, Edward Francis (1760-1848) (Musician portrait)

Iconclass

48B3
portrait, self-portrait of artist
48C7521
one person playing string instrument (bowed)
48C7311
violin, fiddle
48C738
accessories ~ music: metronome, music-stand, tuning-fork, etc.
25F3
birds
43B11
dog
49M32
book

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

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, 22.

Notes

Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "Myself"

RIdIM record id

6299