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This illuminated testimonial is in the form of an encased triptych on parchment, with signatures in ink of former pupils and colleagues under glass panels inside the wings. The main image in the central panel is framed by the historiated initials ‘T’ (for Tobias) & 'M', and this Gothic tracery provides a setting for the medieval-style lutenist within a nocturnal landscape seated beside a muse who is composing. It is snowing. The following text completes this panel: 'Amicitia et Reverentia, Tobias Matthay, Student and Professor of the Royal Academy of Music, Founder of the Matthay Pianoforte School, Author, Composer and Teacher, having won the admiration of his students and incalculably advanced the Art of Music by his zeal, his research and his intellectual brilliance, we in homage and friendship desire by this record to commemorate his Jubilee.
Title
Illuminated Testimonial to Tobias Matthay, FRAM
Date
1922
Medium
tempera, ink & gilding on parchment
Measurements
H 56 x W 86 cm
Accession number
2003.1774
Acquisition method
bequeathed by Tobias Matthay, 1948
Work type
Painting
