Design for Frontispiece to Handel's Sonatas

Image credit: Brampton Museum

How you can use this image

 

This image is available to be shared and re-used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence (CC BY-NC).

This image can be reproduced in any way apart from any commercial uses.

Wherever you reproduce the image or an altered version of it, you must attribute the original creators (acknowledge the original artist(s), the person/organisation that took the photograph of the work) and any other stated rights holders.

Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find more images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.

Download

Notes

Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.

The work shows a classical lady leaning against a plinth and a scroll reading 'non nisi grandia canto'. There are three cherubs, two flying and one playing the harp on the floor. A swan is peering around the plinth.

Brampton Museum

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Title

Design for Frontispiece to Handel's Sonatas

Date

mid-18th C–late 18th C

Medium

watercolour & pen on paper

Measurements

H 32 x W 24.5 cm

Accession number

NM: 2008.217

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Joseph Mayer

Work type

Watercolour

Tags

This artwork does not have any tags yet. You can help by tagging artworks on Tagger.

Brampton Museum

Brampton Park, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire ST5 0QP England

This venue is open to the public. Not all artworks are on display. If you want to see a particular artwork, please contact the venue.
View venue