print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Z,8.1
- Description
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Music, five other arts and an old man; on the right, Music standing, with a laurel crown on her head, holding a lyre in her hand; next to her, an old man seated and an allegorical female figure standing; on the left, four allegorical female figures; in an octagonal frame with oak tree branches; after Edward Francis Burney; illustration to page 324 in the second volume of 'History of Music' by Charles Burney (London: 1776-1787). 1776-1787, this state 1789
Etching with engraving
- Production date
- 1776-1787
- Dimensions
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Height: 200 millimetres
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Width: 175 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The registration number is written on verso on this impression: "Z.8", without any part numbers. According to the register, Z.8 is a portfolio containing 44 impressions of the muses and 7 impressions of Apollo and Pan before Midas, both for the History of Music. These are registered as one object (Z,8) without any part numbers. The present impression must be one of 44 impressions of muses. Until further prints from this registration number are catalogued, the present impression is catalogued on-line as number 1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: History of Music
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on Z,7.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Z,8.1