Ce spéctacle ambulant, cconcert simple et naïf, va dans les Carrefours chercher la populance; mais un autre public plus fin plus décisif court où l'art extravague, et la raison grimace.

Dumont, Jacques (1701-1781)

Daullé, Jean (1703-1763)


Item type:
print
Date of creation:
1739
Height:
57.2 cm  (22 1/2 in.)
Width:
37.6 cm  (14 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
etching
Place of creation:
Paris (France)

    Item location

  • Victoria and Albert Museum
    George Speaight Punch & Judy Collection[Museum inv. no.: S.1285-2010]

Description

A man, most likely a street musician, is playing bagpipes and operating mechanical figures while two children and a dog are watching him.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746] ("cornemuse italienne" (2 chanters, ?2 drones))

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Henning, Rudolf and Uta. Zeugnisse alter Musik (Hersching/Amersee: Verlag Manfred Pawlak, 1975), Tafel 50. RILM 1975-253.

Notes

Jacques Dumont, etcher; Jean Daullé, engraver.

RIdIM record id

648