THE MUSICAL SCENE
Five Centuries of Prints and Drawings of Musical Subjects
Five Centuries of Prints and Drawings of Musical Subjects
- Anon. German, Three Soldiers
- Morellon de la Cave, Vivaldi
- Bloemaert, Majus (May)
- Leonart, Johann Welter
- after Lely, Madame Mary Davis
- att. to Hogarth, Senesino...
- Faber, Mrs. Robinson
- Küsel, Ville de Paride
- Goeneutte, The Duet
- Crehen, Franz Liszt
- Rowlandson , The Welsh Bard
- Hollar, Seven Hunting Horns
- Dequevauviller, L’Assemblée
- Kostomolotsky, Shostakovich
- Solis, Triumph of Flora (Spring)
- Faithorne, Thomas Mace
- Panneels, Saint Cecilia
- Dagoty, Jean-Philippe Rameau
- van de Passe, Orpheus
- Lievens, Jacques Gaultier
- Della Bella, Selva di Diana
- Amman, Three Players
- Silvestre, Troisième Journée
- Anon. French, Nicolò Paganini
- Aroun-al-Rascid, Charpentier
- Polanzani, Masked Ball
- Hegi, Beethoven
- Anonymous, Koussevitzsky
- Kolb, Celebration Plate
- Ravenet, L’Orchestre
- de Wael, Auditus
- Dassonville, Le Concert
- Fantin-Latour, Finale
- Renouard, Dans les Coulisses
- da Trento, Saint Cecilia
- Muller, Jan Pietersz Sweelinck
- Brun, Euterpe Playing
- Sadeler, Jubal
- after Vernet, Gottschalk
- Bickham, Invitation to Mira
- Hohlenberg, Emil Telmányi
- Rops, Le Père Muck
- Bompiani, A Nun Turning
- Legrand, Teutonophonie
- Keene, The Cellist
- Crampton, The Flutist
- Bouchot, Exécution Brillante
- Kilian, The Dancing Lesson
- de Jode, Henri Liberti
- Chauveau, Timbalier et Trompette
- PRINTS AND DRAWINGS OF MUSICAL INTEREST
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40. George Bickham Jr. (ca. 1705-1758) after Hubert-François d’Anville, called Gravelot (1699-1773) The Invitation to Mira, Requesting Her Company to VauxHall Garden |
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The Invitation to Mira, Requesting Her Company to VauxHall Garden
Engraving, 1738, from Bickham’s Musical Entertainer, 327 x 198 mm. Fine impression of the full sheet, with the words and music, on laid paper; a few nicks and tears in the margins only. The vignette includes the statue of George Frideric Handel by Roubiliac, erected in Vaux Hall Gardens during the composer’s lifetime, and one of the all-too-rare such tributes to a living composer. Bickham's volumes kept people abreast of the hits of the day and the vignettes frequently showed where those hits were originally sung. People had to entertain themselves in those days.
