Handel Commemoration Concert

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Artist/Maker	Smirke, Robert (artist)
Place of origin	England (made)

Subscription ticket design for a Handel Commemoration Concert, Westminster Abbey. The design showing a woman and a cherub playing a horn either side of a bust of Handel. Line and wash drawing. Signed R.S. ie: Robert Smirke. Probably a preparatory drawing for 21030.5. shown below.

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Category	Printed Pages & Sheets
Object type	Drawing
Title	Handel Commemoration Concert
Materials and techniques	Line and wash drawing Drawing Wash Technique
Brief description	Subscription ticket design for a Handel Commemoration Concert at Westminster Abbey. The design showing a woman and a cherub playing a horn either side of a bust of Handel. Line and wash drawing. Signed. By Robert Smirke. England. 1784.
Physical description	Subscription ticket design for a Handel Commemoration Concert, Westminster Abbey. The design showing a woman and a cherub playing a horn either side of a bust of Handel. Line and wash drawing. Signed R.S. ie: Robert Smirke. Probably a preparatory drawing for 21030.5. shown below.
Dimensions	Cut to height: 14cm Cut to width: 13.8cm Dimensions taken from: Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, 1991.
Marks and inscriptions	Signed R.S.
Credit line	Bequeathed by H. H. Harrod.
Production	Signed R.S. ie: Robert Smirke. Probably a preparatory drawing for 21030:5.
Subjects depicted	Music Ticket Bust Woman Cherub Horn Handel, George Frideric
Associated object	21030:5
Bibliographic references	Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, 1991. Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and Department of Paintings, Accessions: 1948, Volume II, Henry Herbert Harrod Bequest, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1228-1948

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O600733/handel-commemoration-concert-drawing-smirke-robert/

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