Boston Public LibraryJames Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings / English Caricature and Political Satire, 18th and 19th Centuries / British Artists
Playing in parts
Item Information
- Title:
- Playing in parts
- Description:
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Amateur musicians, the design based on 'Ars-Musica,' altered, and much elaborated. Four ugly and elderly men grouped round a young woman who sits, full face, at a square piano lit by a guttering candle. She lifts her hands to thump, with grim determination. A cellist is on her right, a vast gouty leg thrust forward, a violinist on her left. Behind her are two flautists. Behind (left), a young officer and a girl flirt, hand in hand. In the background (right) are visitors: two military officers shake hands, one bowing so that his sword lifts up the petticoats of a fat lady walking off to the right. A dog howls with one paw on a music-book (BM).
- Artist:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815
- Date:
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May 15, 1801
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works)
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Musicians
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 22 x 29 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111m41c
- Terms of Use:
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No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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[London] :
[Published by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh]
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
BM Satires 9766
Additional information accompanying item: From the 1824 Gillray collection of copies, etched and published by John Miller and W. Blackwood.
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Louis Black; December 1953
- Notes (date):
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Date from British Museum.
Reproduction. Date indicated is Gillray's original publication date.
- Notes (citation):
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Stephens, Frederic George, George, Mary Dorothy. "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum." British Museum Press, 1870, London.
- Identifier:
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18_17_000082
- Barcode:
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36666004443566
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