File:A Glee. Une Allegresse (BM 1935,0522.1.77).jpg
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[edit]A Glee. Une Allegresse
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After: Robert Dighton
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| Title |
A Glee. Une Allegresse |
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| Description |
English: A companion print to BMSat 6912; a similar group of men in a similar room stand or sit at a rectangular table singing from a large music-book held open on the table. Punch-bowl, wine-bottle, glasses, pipes, a tumbler are on the table which is covered by a heavy cloth. Their expressions are more serious than those of the catch-singers. Two men in the background are smoking, one of whom is lighting his pipe. A dog sits in the foreground looking up at the singers. The words of the glee are engraved beneath the print, beginning:
Hand-coloured mezzotint |
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| Date | 1786 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings |
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| Accession number |
1935,0522.1.77 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The Glee Club was formed in 1787, earlier meetings having taken place informally at private houses, beginning in 1783 with meetings at the house of Mr. Robert Smith in St. Paul's Churchyard when glees, canons, catches, &c, were sung after dinner. Grove, 'Dict. of Music'. A similar subject by Rowlandson to BMSat 6912, 6913 is the frontispiece to the 'Lyric Repository. A Collection of. . . Songs Duets Catches, Glees & Cantatas . . . Printed for J. French N° 164 Fenchurch Street. 1787'. Copy in Print Room. (Supplementary information) A pair to BMSat 6912. Dighton's original watercolour for this print from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose was sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 76. An earlier state was published by Carington Bowles, and the print is listed in his sale catalogue for 1790 (p.110 no. 546). For a dated impression from the earlier state, see 2010,7081.1093 |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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