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print
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satirical print
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)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
253 millimetres
Width:
355 millimetres
$Inscriptions
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
Purchased from:
Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd
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