NON-SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
- Laroon, The Quarrel
- Hollar, Glastoniensis
- Hollar, Landscape with Herdsmen
- Smith, Mr. Will: Richards
- Hogarth, Southwark Fair
- Smith, The Virgin Mary
- Hogarth, Midnight Modern
- Robinson, Banquet Piece
- att. to Vanderbank, Senesino
- Beauclerk, Street Musicians
- Haward, Mrs. Siddons
- Gillray, Comfort to the Corns
- Cheesman, The Seamstress
- Anonymous, Diamond
- Rowlandson, Gaffers
- Bartolozzi, Miss Farren
- Anonymous, Beatrice Fishing
- Say, Miss Mellon
- Rowlandson, The Poacher
- Smith, Narcissa
- Cruikshank, The Cholic
- Vendramini, Strawberrys, Scarlet
- Cruikshank, A Catalanian PicNic
- Morland, Peasants Resting
- Cruikshank, Sales by Auction!
- Daniell, Joseph Haydn
- Williams, Leap Year
- Finch, In the Park
- Cruikshank, A Consultation
- Anonymous, Duck Shooting
- Heath, A Pleasant Draught
- O’Neill, The Mill
- Cruikshank, Hint to the Blind
- Craig, Trees
- Heath, Blessing of Cheap Cider
- Calvert, The Brook
- Calvert, Cottage and Trees
- Lisle, I’d be a butterfly
- Palmer, Early Plowman
- Leitch, Shepherd
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Whistler, The Brothers
- Cameron, The Palace
- Strang, The Cause of the Poor
- Detmold, Long-Eared Bat
- Detmold, Phoenix
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23. Isaac Cruikshank (1765-1811) after George Montard Woodward (ca. 1760-1809) A Catalanian PicNic Society at Private Rehearsal |
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A Catalanian PicNic Society at Private Rehearsal
Etching with hand coloring, 1807, 242 x 348 mm., British Museum N.D.; Walpole Library N.D. Fine impression on wove paper with thread margins or trimmed on the platemark; tips of the lower corners (blank paper) lacking and minor creases. The title has nothing to do with Catalonia (Spain) but derives from the Italian soprano Angelica Catalani, who made her London debut in 1806. The PicNic Society is a singing club, named for her. The scene is of a group of miscellaneous characters, including a drunken servant spilling the wine, each of whom, simultaneously, sings a line of a different song. The cat and dog add to the uproar. A non-singing member sits and comments on the charms of music: “Oh Exquisite Harmony!! Music has charms to soften rocks and bend the knotted oak.” Published by Thos. Tegg, March 12, 1807, the print is sometimes misattributed to Isaac Robert Cruikshank, brother of George, but is correctly by their father Isaac.
