Domestic amusement: playing on the guitar

Houston, Richard (born 1721-1722, died 1775)

Mercier, Philippe (1689-1760) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

ca. 1760

Height:

32.1 cm  (12 5/8 in.)

Width:

24.9 cm  (9 13/16 in.)

image: 29.7 × 24.9 cm

Technique / Medium:

mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, blued white, laid paper

Description

Portrait of an unnamed, elegantly attired lady playing an English guitar.

Iconclass

48C723
portrait of a musician
41D
fashion, clothing
48C75
making music; musician with instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

English guitar [3107]

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, 18.

Ingamells, John. A catalogue of the paintings, drawings, and etchings of Philip Mercier, Volume of the Walpole Society, no. 46 (Walpole Society, 1976-8) 41, no. 147.

Notes

Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "after Mercier"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "Engraved J Houston"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower center: "Domestic amusement"

Paul Mellon collector's mark

RIdIM record id

6357