print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.3.133
- Title
- Object: Cheap Music
- Description
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A grotesquely ugly man, in ill fitting slightly old-fashionable dress, (probably purchased second-hand) stands at the counter of a music-shop, one hand on a newly fashionable umbella with stand, not spike, the other extended, with fingers projecting through his glove. His handkerchief pokes out from his tail pocket. The jovial obese shopman grins at his request, pointing over his shoulder with his thumb. Their words are below the title: "Mr Catgut I want to purchase a Cheap Fiddle." | "Then you had better go to the next Chemist and purchase four Penny-worth" | "of Daffy's Elixir [see BM Satires 11704] and he'll give you a VIAL IN." A 'cello leans against the counter, two violins hang on the wall, below a piece of music with the heading of a girl selling brooms, indicating Planché's song, 'Buy a broom', see BM Satires 15298. Music is neatly stacked on shelves, and two small horns and a harp are on show. c.1825?
Hand-coloured etching with aquatint
- Production date
- 1820-1828
- Dimensions
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Height: 300 millimetres
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Width: 196 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)
Apparently a companion plate to No. 14992.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.3.133
