A family group around a piano

Chinnery, George (1774-1852)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1812-1815
Height:
14.3 cm  (5 5/8 in.)
Width:
16.2 cm  (6 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Description

An interior scene with a group of four women, two men, and one baby, all gathered near a piano which is being played by one of the women. The woman holding the baby is wearing a sari, and one of the men wears a military uniform, suggesting that the gathering takes place in India. An open score and a loose page of music have only illegible music notation.

Iconclass

42B74
family group, especially parents with their child(ren)
48C7523
one person playing keyboard instrument
41D3
folk costume, regional costume
45C21
(military) uniforms

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Grand pianoforte [2284]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
Yale Center for British Art
image link 2
Art and Music in Britain (Yale exhibition site with commentary)

Bibliographic references

Barringer, Timothy J. Art & music in Britain: Four encounters, 1730-1900 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2006) 16, 20.

RIdIM record id

6358