Dear Arthur, Thanks very much for that info about the picture. I thought "Mozart" looked rather podgy and round nosed compared with other portraits!!
I'll add your information to the page. Best wishes, David At 10:30 AM -0500 30/1/06, Arthur Ness wrote: >Dear David, > >Thanks for posting the picture again. I think it is also in >Robbins-Landon, Haydn: Documentary Studies. > >That is an engraving published in London ca. 1800 by Monzani & Co. >and shows Willloughbye Bertie, Fourth Earl of Abingdon.(seated), and >an anonymous lutenist. Abingdon was among those who brought Haydn >to London, and for him (he was an amateur flutist) Haydn wrote the >trios for 2 flutes and 'cello (nice pieces, also first publ. by >Monzani & Co.). > >Later Abingdon and Haydn collaborated on a collection of catches and >glees (also publ. Monzoni). Haydn wrote the harpsichord or harp >accompaniments. Could this be an idealized representation of their >collaborastion? If so, why isn't Haydn named? > >Later editions of the engraving were identified as depicting Haydn >(playing lute) inspiring Mozart (seated). Guess sales were slow for >a portrait of Bertie. (Perhaps after Bertie was imprisoned for >slander.) > >ajn. -- The Smokehouse, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899 Website: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
