Sir James Bland Burges

Labruzzi, Pietro (1739-1805)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1774
Height:
171.0 cm  (67 5/16 in.)
Width:
123.0 cm  (48 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • private collection"Sold London, Christie, 12 March 1976, lot 128." --Leppert's article, p. 52.

Description

A male figure sits at a table, holding a book in his right hand, and gesturing to a map under the book with his left hand. A sculpted bust appears to his right, and he wears a sword on his left hip. A violoncello lies on the floor to his left, on top of a small pile of notated music, with the bow placed under the string.

People as subjects

Burges, James Bland, Sir (1752-1824) (Non-musician/dancer)

Iconclass

46C5
travelling; tourism

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violoncello [3582]

Image URLs

image link 1
From the photo archive catalogue of the Fondazione Federico Zeri at the Università di Bologna.

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. "Men, women, and music at home: the influence of cultural values on musical life in eighteenth-century England", Imago musicae 2 (1985) 51-133, fig. 20. RILM 1985-6899.

RIdIM record id

6986