print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 2010,7081.1123
Title: Object: The Harmonic Meeting
Description: Satire; a group with animal heads, playing instruments, singing, dancing and drinking, including a group in the right foreground playing fire-tongs and other implements, a conductor with a cat and owl on his shoulder and a monkey playing a drum, perched on a ladder on the left; lit by a brazier on the wall, next to a painting of a landscape with inn and windmills. 1771 Mezzotint with some etching
Producer name: Published by: Robert Sayer; After: Egbert van Heemskerck II
School/style: British; Dutch
Production date: 1771
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Technique
Dimensions: Height: 253 millimetres; Width: 355 millimetres
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Curator's comments: See also a variant in reverse direction published the same year: 2010,7081.1124 A satire on the concerts held by Theresa Cornelys (Madame Trenti) at her house in Soho Square. The composition is based on one by Heemskerck. See BM Satires no. 1866
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (undescribed); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; sport/pastime; anthropomorphism
Associated names: Associated with: Gaetano Guadagni; Associated with: Theresa Cornelys
Acquisition name
Funder name: With contribution from: National Heritage Memorial Fund; With contribution from: Art Fund; With contribution from: British Museum Friends; With contribution from: Friends of Prints and Drawings; With contribution from: Mrs Charles Wrightsman; With contribution from: Michael Marks Charitable Trust
Acquisition date: 2010
Acquisition notes: Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2010,7081.1123

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