A Catalanian pic nic society at private rehearsal [graphic] / Woodward del. ; Cruikshank sp.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
March 12, 1807

Physical Description:

1 print : etching, hand-colored, on wove paper ; sheet 242 x 248 mm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 8, no. 10906

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
C. & J. Goodfriend; April 2013.

Abstract:

Six members of the society sit in a row, each singing a different song. All are ugly and elderly except one lady who turns to her neighbour singing, "In sweetest harmony we live." The latter, almost bald, sits on the extreme left, singing, "Time has not thinn'd my flowing hair." A fat, ugly lady bawls towards her left hand neighbour: "Encompass'd in [an] angels frame." He sings to her: "Together let us ran[ge] the fields." A man with closed eyes from which tears fall, sings: "Said a smile to a tear what cause have you hear." A gouty, old naval officer on the extreme right sings: "Oh exquisite harmony!! Music has charms to soften rocks and bend the knotted oak." A dishevelled footman with a bottle in his coat-pocket walks from the right, tilting his salver of glasses so that they fall on a squalling cat. He sings tipsily: "From night till morn I take my glass I hopes to forget my Chloe!!" A dog on the left howls.

Variant Titles:

Catalanian picnic society at private rehearsal

Associated Names:

Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811? [Printmaker]
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845 [Publisher]
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 [Artist]

Topics:

Cats
Crying
Dogs
Organizations
Rehearsals
Servants
Singing
Sleeping

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1802
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1802

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:

807.03.12.02+

Orbis Record:

11364715

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr29682

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10996987

PID:

digcoll:551562