"A little music," or, The delights of harmony / Js. Gillray fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
"A little music," or, The delights of harmony / Js. Gillray fect.
[London : H Humphrey, 1810]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.663
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[London : H. Humphrey, 1810]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Lacking imprint; publication information from George.

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Print shows a young woman singing and playing the piano with painful intentness, accompanied by a man who holds open her music-book, inscribed 'On Rosy Bed by Tinckling Billy'. A middle-aged military officer stands full face playing the flute. A fat elderly 'cit' sleeps in an arm-chair at left; his wig has fallen off and his legs rest on another chair. Behind him a very obese man and a homely, over-dressed woman with a thin neck sing from the same piece of music: 'On Rosy Bed'. He warms his back at a blazing fire; the feathers in her hair are alight in one of the candles on the chimney-piece. A small boy blows a toy trumpet, a dog howls and a yowling cat stands on an open music-book inscribed 'Water Part ..."

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