A Little Music - or - the Delights of Harmony
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reduced copy after James Gillray, painter, draughtsman, caricaturist, engraver and etcher, 1756-1815 (artist notes)
Unknown (artist nationality)
Gillray, James, 1756-1815 (original artist)
Recto: l. l.: (in border) Gillray Invt ; bottom center: (just beneath border) A Little Music_or_the Delights of Harmony. ; bottom center: (along edge of sheet) London . Published by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh. ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil) London. (Cranburn Street). July. 1931 / 5/- $1.25 ; l. l.: (in pencil) C575/1 (inscription)
Hand-colored etching and aquatint. (medium)
Fine condition. (condition)
[Shop], Cranburn Street, London, July 1931. (provenance)
Harpsichord, Flute, Trumpet (toy) (instrument)
19th century (century)
Caricatures and Cartoons (miller category)
The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.
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