Lovers reading a book in a pleasure garden to the accompaniment of music. Etching, 17--.

Date:
[between 1700 and 1799]
Reference:
2846181i
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Description

The couple is seated at the bottom of a garden staircase. Left, a musician plying the flute; in the foreground a violin and a musical score. Right, two ladies promenading in the garden. In the background, left, an Italianate loggia

Publication/Creation

[London?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1700 and 1799]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 19.3 x 10.6 cm

Lettering

Music the fiercest grief can charm / And Fate's severest rage disarm: / Music can soften pain to ease, / And make despair and madness please: Our joys below it can improve, / And antidate the bliss above. Pope. The verses are from Ode for music on St. Cecilia's day by Alexander Pope (1708)

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Wellcome Collection 2846181i

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