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The Anacreontic Petition and Song   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: Carington Bowles

After: Robert Dighton
Title
The Anacreontic Petition and Song
Description
English: Illustration to a song engraved beneath the title. Jove, holding a sheaf of thunderbolts, stands (right) on clouds, angry at a petition delivered to Anacreon (in Heaven) from a club of 'Sons of Harmony' asking him to be 'their Inspirer and Patron'. With him is a confused crowd of gods and goddesses. Apollo, seated with his lyre, and Momus, a jester in cap and bells, successfully take the part of the petitioners. The petition, a large inscribed scroll, lies on the clouds. In the background (left) is an irradiated circular temple, and Mount Helicon (right) from which Pegasus is leaping. The song ends:



'May our Club flourish happy, united, and free!
And long may the Sons of Anacreon intwine
The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine.'


Hand-coloured mezzotint
Depicted people Associated with: Anakreon
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 350 millimetres
Width: 247 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.1.74
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The constitutional song of the Anacreontic Society, sung by the chairman or his deputy after the supper which followed the fortnightly concert, was 'To Anacreon in Heaven'. W. T. Parke, 'Musical Memoirs', 1830, i. 81. See also 'Reminiscences of M. Kelly', ii. 101 f.

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See 2010,7081.807 for an impression dated 1 Feb.1791. Another impression with the same date was with Andrew Edmunds in 2015.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-74
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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