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A bravura at the Hanover Square concert.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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A bravura at the Hanover Square concert.
Description
English: Two musicians (three-quarter length) behind a balustrade: Tenducci sings, standing 'chapeau-bras' in profile to the left holding his music. He is very foppish, wearing a large sword; a 'cellist who resembles Cervetto sits (left) turning his head in profile to the right. Across the base of the design are the heads and shoulders of four men, seated with their backs to the balustrade, one wearing a ribbon and star. They listen with displeasure or indifference. 27 May 1789
Etching and aquatint
Depicted people Associated with: James Cervetto
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 268 millimetres
Width: 200 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5862
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

'The Professional Concert' was given at the Hanover Square Rooms from 1783 to 1793. Cervetto ceased performing on the death of his father in Jan. 1783. Grove, 'Dict. Music'.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5862
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