Hearing

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

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1753

Height:

37.8 cm  (14 7/8 in.)

Width:

27.1 cm  (10 11/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper

Additional titles

Description

A woman sits at a table with a music book opened in front of a bird perched on top of a bird cage. The woman holds an instrument in her left hand, presumably a flageolet or a recorder, as suggested in Leppert's article, p. 112.

Iconclass

34B13
domestic birds (inside the house)
48C751
one person with musical instrument, not playing

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Flageolet [3946]
Recorder [4039]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

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. 44. RILM 1985-6899.

RIdIM record id

9849