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print, satirical print   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Egbert van Heemskerck II

Print made by: William Henry Toms
Title
print, satirical print
Description
English: Satire on English admiration for foreign musicians set in cellar where performers and their audience all have the heads of different animals. In the centre, an ape-singer stands at a lectern conducting proceedings; a cat sits on his shoulders and an owl wearing spectacles perches on the head of the cat. The singers, to the right, include figures with the heads of a ram, donkey, goat, and bull; a bear plays bladder and string and a monkey a coal shovel and tongs.; a dog, seated in the foreground, howls in unison. In the background a cat-woman and an ass-man dance, an ape-man plays a jew's harp and another waves a glass and bottle. Another ape-man is perched on a ladder playing a pipe and tabor. The scene is lit by a smoking lamp hanging from the ceiling; a sheet of music lettered, "Fame orum, Wildum a Gorum,/Game orum, a Game" is pinned to the wall; a large jug, a hat, a slipper, broom, glasses and a bottle lie on the floor. c.1730
Etching and engraving
Date circa 1730
date QS:P571,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 369 millimetres
Width: 305 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1866,0407.58
Notes From a series of eight, see BMSat 1858-1866; and 1866,0407.51 for further details. (See also a series of copies for John Bowles at P&D 1988,0514. 29-36)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-0407-58
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