Sujet

Music by A. B. Clay, from the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1862. Creator: H. Harrall.

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Music by A. B. Clay, from the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1862. Engraving of a painting. 'The attitude of the head and neck of the lady seated playing an accompaniment on the harmonium is very descriptive - nicely observed and gracefully expressed. And the same may be said of the elderly lady - the mother, maybe, of one or both the young ladies - who sits listening with such pleased attention, and keeping time with her hand, and thinking, perhaps, of many tender and sweet memories which music often recalls with thrilling force when the heart is deaf to all else. Music will often strike the string we thought was broken - will touch the electric chord we thought for ever mute - awake the echoes we thought had died away in the silence of years - among our native hills when all nature was resonant, or on the troubled sea of afterlife. Mr. Clay has appended to the title of his picture in the Royal Academy Catalogue the following quotation: "As for some dear familiar strain Untired we ask, and ask again, Ever in its melodious store Finding a spell unheard before".' From "Illustrated London News", 1862.

Date

1862

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A09_211

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

26,1Mo (2,7Mo) / 22,2cm x 29,5cm / 2621 x 3483 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people job domestic family music daughters arts painting playing singing parent musician musicians art occupation listening British color mother motherhood Victorian century musical instrument musical instruments Britain profession household parenting vocalist singer newspapers press picture print piano pictures B&W sheet music engraved engraving domestic life mum pianist Colour 19th century daughter black & white black and white Piano Player B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News ILN newspaper playing an instrument 19th-century Alfred Barron Clay Clay Alfred Barron H. Harrall Harrall H.