In pencil at foot of sheet: Etched by Sir Abraham Hume Bart.
Printmaker, artist, and publication date from George.
Individual subjects identified from the annotated British Museum impression.
The later state, with additional work in the aquatint portions of the background.
Print shows a group of seven musicians playing at a concert, specifically identified in some sources as one of two played at Cambridge in 1767; the musicians, some of whom have been variously identified via annotated copies of the print, as well from contemporary printed sources, include: the pantaleonist Georg Noëlli (shown playing a dulcimer-like instrument known as a "pantaleon"), Dutch violinist Pieter Hellendaal, flautist John Frederick Ranish (here shown playing the oboe), Cambridge music seller John Wynne (double bass), and singer and organist David Wood (shown singing at far right); suggestions concerning the identity of the two remaining players, including a second violinist and a bespectacled man on cello, have included either Georg Noëlli's father, Noëlli' Senior, or John Keymer, as the second violinist, and Alexis Magito or "West" as the cellist. Cf. Music in Eighteenth-Century England: Essays in Memory of Charles Cudworth (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1983), page xv-xviii (print reproduced as frontispiece); see also: "Observations", in: Early Music, Volume 8, Issue 1, 1 January 1980, page 71.