Lot 494

GILLRAY, JAMES
“A LITTLE MUSIC” – OR – THE DELIGHTS OF HARMONY. [LONDON: H. HUMPHREY, 1810]




Auction: 10 October 2018 at 11:00 BST
£425
Description
Etching and aquatint, hand-coloured, 28 x 38cm; and AN OLD ENCORE AT THE OPERA, etching, London: H. Humphrey, 1803, framed and glazed (2)
Footnote
Note: The Earl of Galloway, a frequent opera-goer, was caricatured by James Gillray in 'An Old Encore at the Opera!'. In 1762, James Boswell wrote of him that he had "a petulant forwardness that cannot fail to disgust people of sense and delicacy".



