John Goldar - The Country Choristers, Dayton C. Miller Collection

after John Collet, landscapist and caricaturist, 1725-1780 (artist notes)
British (artist nationality)
engraver (artist role)
Collet, John, 1725-1780 (original artist)
Recto: l. l.: (just beneath image) J. Collet pinxt; l. r.: (just beneath image) J. Goldar Sculpt.; l. c.: The Country Choristers; l. c.: (bottom edge) London, Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35, Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street; Publish'd as the Act directs 20 March 1773. -; Verso: l. l.: (in pencil) C575/564 (inscription)
Etching. (medium)
Small interior tears in left and right center and lower left edge but, mended, and supported by paper lining. (condition)
Source not known. (provenance)
Pitch pipe (instrument)
18th century (century)
Works of Art [General] (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.