Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Title:
Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music
Date:
ca. 1800-1815
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 3/16 x 28 5/16in. (48.7 x 71.9cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower center: "Amateurs of Tie-Wig Music"; additional inscriptions on image
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.155
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
concert | women | music | organology | men | children | satire | leisure | keys | fireplace | cages | books | globe | chairs | tie-wigs | horns | playing cards | fiddles | toys (recreational artifacts) | clarinet | oboe | violins | cellos | flute | clocks | scales (weighing devices) | bellows | saw | busts | owl | dog (animal) | cat | sheet music | score
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Land without Music - Satirizing Song in Eighteenth-Century England (The Lewis Walpole Library, 2017-03-01 - 2017-09-01)

Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31)

British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (The Library of Congress, 1984-11-13 - 1985-02-26)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (National Gallery of Canada, 1985-02-26 - 1985-05-10)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-09-01 - 1985-11-13)

English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985-06-04 - 1985-09-05)

The Drawings of Edward Francis Burney (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 1982-11-16 - 1983-02-01)

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text), , New Haven, 2006, [p. 3], V 1699:1 (YCBA)

Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 16, 20-21, V 1699 (YCBA)

Richard T. Godfrey, English caricature, 1620 to the present : caricaturists and satirists, their art, their purpose and influence, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1984, p. 103, no. 144, pl. XVII, NC1477 .G63 E54

J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 44, 94, no. 62, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catalogue : Fine eighteenth and nineteenth century English drawings and watercolours : 5 April 1973, Sotheby's, April 5, 1973, p. 14, lot 40b, pl. VIII, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

The land without music : satirizing music in eighteenth-century England, Yale University Library, New Haven, 2017, pp. 9-10, 17, Vertical File V2773 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12120