Designs for illustrations to Mozart's operas

Burney, Edward Francis (1760-1848)


Item type:
drawing
Height:
15.9 cm  (6 1/4 in.)
Width:
20.6 cm  (8 1/8 in.)
measurements for B1979.12.927: 20 × 19.1 cm (7 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches)
Technique / Medium:
pen and gray ink, gray wash, red chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper

    Item location

  • Yale Center for British Art
    Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery[Museum inv. no.: B1979.12.926 and B1979.12.927]

Description

Two very similar drawings with images related to works by Mozart: scores labeled with opera titles or other identifiers, mythological figures, cherubs, birds, theatrical masks, and musical instruments.

People as subjects

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) (Composer)

Iconclass

48C71
composer
48C862
opera
48C85
theatre, theatrical performance
48C741
printed edition of musical score
48C742
manuscript of musical score
48C70
'Musica', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ 'Musica' (Ripa)
48C803
symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ musical drama

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown trumpet [6556]
End-blown horn [5177]
Lyre [3501]
Cymbals [2451]
Tambourine [2746]
Panpipe [4024]

RIdIM images


B1979.12.926

B1979.12.927

Image URLs

image link 1
B1979.12.926
image link 3
B1979.12.927

Bibliographic references

Barringer, Timothy J. Art & music in Britain: Four encounters, 1730-1900 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2006) 16, 22.

Notes

Inscriptions in B1979.12.926: "LA CLEMENZA DI TITO | IDOMENEO | IL FLAUTO MAGICO | DON GIOVANNI | COSI FAN TU | FIGARO"; "SONATE | SINFONIE | QUARTETTI | REQUIEM" ---- Inscriptions in B1979.12.927: "LA CLEMENZA DI TITO | IDOMENEO | FLAUTO MAGICO | DON GIOVANNI | COSI FAN | FIGARO | SERAIL"; "SONATE | SINFONI | QUARTET | REQUIEM"

RIdIM record id

6333