Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Ph.D., Burton and Deedee McMurtry Curator and Director of the Curatorial Fellowship Program, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University: For the violin player in Hogarth’s print, the hectic world of goods and services is an assault on his senses. He clamps his hands over his ears to block out the symphony of urban noise erupting in the street below his window. At left, a ballad seller calls out to sell her prints and a wandering musician plays his horn. A boy beats a drum in front of a milkmaid carrying a pail to market, and a knife sharpener operates his grinding wheel.
Bibliography
Blake, Matthews, Moyles, Sosa. The Look of Reason: Strategies of Description in the Eighteenth Century. (Exhibition catalogue) Stanford University Museum of Art: 1996; Object data andimage shared on the Association Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM) website, https://ridim.org/, as of 10/15/2018.
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Use for pictorial representations, which may be in various media, that represent scenes or events from everyday life; usually used with another term such as "paintings" or "prints." [April 1991 descriptor moved.]
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