Concerto coalitionale [graphic] / JS f.

Creator:

Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London]
Published [the] 7th June, 1785, by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street,
[7 June 1785]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 305 x 406 mm, on sheet 35 x 46 cm

Related Links:

http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitemg.asp?itemid=lwlpr30256a

Notes:

Title etched below image.

Abstract:

"Between Fox and Surrey, Powys, the second violin, is seated on the ground, looking with an agonized expression (cf. BMSat 6413) towards Fox, the first violin. From Fox's pocket hangs a paper: 'Irish Propositions set to music for the White Boys'. Burke is farther to the left, blowing his trumpet with a deeper scowl. Lord Derby has been displaced from his central position for Lord Sandwich, seated in an arm-chair, holding a roll inscribed 'Catches & Glees' with which he beats time, turning to the right where Stormont blows the French horn as before. Farther to the right Lord Carlisle, in profile to the left, plays the clarinet (or hautboys). Derby, standing between Burke and Sandwich, plays the pipe and tabor. Eden plays the Irish harp as before and in the same position, but at his feet is a squalling cat, watched contemptuously by a large dog whose collar is inscribed 'watch'. Another dog howls with its fore-paws on the open music-book inscribed 'Ballanamonioro'. On the extreme left, in 'profil perdu' to the left, Portland is seated at the harpsichord; his music is also '[B]allanamonioro'. In the foreground (left) is a fox, its collar inscribed 'Fox', standing on a kettledrum, its cloth decorated with the Cavendish arms and motto, 'Cavendo tutus', and snarling at an overturned side-drum decorated with the royal arms; this indicates Fox's attitude to the Crown and the support given to him by the Duchess of Devonshire. Other books of music, a cittern, &c, lie in the foreground. On a chimney-piece, behind Portland, is a bust, laurel-wreathed with a blank face, inscribed 'oντiς'; against it lean a lyre and a smiling mask. Two manuscripts hang down from the chimney-piece: 'Critique on the Rolliad' and 'Probationary Odes for the Laureateship'. These emblems signify the anonymity of the two famous political satires which went into several editions in 1785 after appearing in the 'Morning Herald'. On the back wall, above the heads of the performers, are (left to right) marrow-bones and cleavers, reminiscent of the bands of butchers who had supported Fox in the Westminster Election. Next is a framed picture: Fox beating a tambourine, North playing a clarinet to which dance performing dogs and a hare. In the centre is an oval bust portrait of the Prince of Wales, the frame inscribed 'Auspicium melioris Ævi' (see BMSat 6771). The third depicts Fox leading a performing bear, while a man, resembling a bearded Jew, plays a hurdy-gurdy. On the extreme right a legal wig is hung above a set of bagpipes; it is inscribed 'New Wig' [Whig] with the letters 'C.P'; on the bag are the letters 'PC', on one of the pipes '1745'. They represent Loughborough, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and his self-seeking changes of party."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Concerts.
Musical instruments.
Trained animals.

Topics:

Auckland, William Eden,--Baron,--1744-1814--Caricatures and cartoons.
Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
Carlisle, Frederick Howard,--Earl of,--1748-1825--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Derby, Edward Smith Stanley,--Earl of,--1752-1834--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Lilford, Thomas Powys,--Baron,--1743-1800--Caricatures and cartoons.
Mansfield, David Murray,--Earl of,--1727-1796--Caricatures and cartoons.
Norfolk, Charles Howard,--Duke of,--1746-1815--Caricatures and cartoons.
North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck,--Duke of,--1738-1809--Caricatures and cartoons.
Sandwich, John Montagu,--Earl of,--1718-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Drypoints--England--London--1785.
Etchings--England--London--1785.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1785.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

7695480

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr30256

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6795

OID:

16194405

PID:

digcoll:4047584