A choral band

Bates, Lydia (active 1784)

Mortimer, John Hamilton (1740-1779) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

ca. 1777

Technique / Medium:

etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper

Description

This scene includes an amateur local choir (characterized by lower-class garments) and a cosmopolitan instrumental ensemble (labeled as Prussia[n], Ger[man], Ital[ian], Swiss, and Eng[lish]. Instruments visible are French horn, double bass, oboe, and transverse flute; the musician to the right in the orchestral group may represent a keyboard player and/or conductor, and he is pictured with an open score with the letters PRA and the numbers 4679. Audience members of different social classes are also depicted. This is an etching copied from a drawing by John Hamilton Mortimer also owned by Yale (RIdIM item 6308).

Iconclass

32A5
caricatures (human types)
32
human types; peoples and nationalities
48C7552
choir
48C753
more than on musician with instrument
48C7532
small group of musicians; chamber orchestra
48A712
the audience ~ art performance
48C70
'Musica', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ music; 'Musica' (Ripa)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Horn [4118]
Double bass [3111]
Oboe [4232]
Transverse flute [4093]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Notes

Lettered in black ink, lower left: "Mortimer del"; lower left, within image: "PRUSSIA"; lower center, within image: "GER | ITAL"; lower right, within image: "SWISS | ENGL"; lower right: "L Bates fect."

RIdIM record id

6305