Parables -- Prodigal Son: [J R Smith Pr] Smith, John Raphael (1752-1812). "The Prodigal Son Feasted on his Return," from The History of the Prodigal Son. pub. anonymously by Carington Bowles in 1775. mezzotint with hand-coloring. Musicians in a little gallery above and behind the diners seem to play violin, coiled horn and cello (?, left-handed). (Art History 13 [1990] 327)
[G Cruikshank Pr] [G Cruikshank Pr] Cruikshank, George (1792-1878). Herne the Hunter Plunging into the Lake, from William Harrison Ainsworth, Windsor Castle, London, Henry Colburn, 1843. etching. He has a curved horn. (J. Buchanan-Brown. The Book Illustrations of George Cruikshank. Newton Abbot 1980. fig. 169)
[Haydon-Harvey Pr] William Harvey (1796/98-1866) after Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846). "Assasination of L. S. Dentatus." wood engraving. Includes a mounted military figure blowing a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn (slightly looped). (Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 58 [1995] 233 [ok reproduction])
Life and Death: [Rowlandson Dr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). The Next Heir. San Marino CA, Huntington Library. drawing. From a large series of drawings on the subject of "Death and ..." As the heir to the title drives his coach along the street, a mounted hunter blows a coiled horn (bell up). (R. R. Wark. Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection. San Marino 1975. cat. and pl. 322)
Other: [G Cruikshank Pr] Cruikshank, George (1792-1878). An Excursion to R-- Hall (1 October 1812). etching. The Prince Regent going to the country in an open carriage driven by the devil. [The Marquess of] Hertford's dissolute, red-haired son, the Earl of Yarmouth, blows a looped posthorn with a tiny crook or second loop. (J. Wardroper. The Caricatures of George Cruikshank. London 1977. p. 51 [fair color reproduction])
See also Miscellaneous Figures, Putti.
Battles, Encampments and Other Military Scenes: [J Gillray Pr] Gillray, James (1757-1858). Fatigues of the Campaign in Flanders (1793). etching. Officers dining outside a tent, accompanied by military musicians playing two coiled horns, flanking a fellow with two trumpets (one played, one held -- a parody of Fame?). There is also a black cymbals player. (D. Kunzle. The Early Comic Strip, I. Berkeley 1973. p. 380)
Boating Parties: See also Views.
Chamber Music (on terrace, in garden): [Rowlandson Dr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). The Garden Trio, from the Doctor Syntax series. drawing. Women play violin and cello/double bass and a man plays a violin. A negro page holds a trumpet and a coiled horn. There is perhaps a woodwind instrument on the ground. (J. J. Savory. Thomas Rowlandson's Doctor Syntax Drawings ... London 1997. p. 88 [ok reproduction]) The print after this was published in London, R. Ackermann, 1823.
Coaching Scenes: [Alken Pa] Alken, Henry (1784-1851). The Exeter and London Royal Mail Coach at Speed. London art market (1967). Includes a figure blowing a coach horn. (sale, Sotheby's 11.X.1967; Burlington 109 [1967] Aug. ad p. v)
[Alken Pa] _______. a Coaching Scene. London art market (1970). Includes a coachman holding a coach horn. (sale, Sotheby's, 18.XI.1970; Burlington 112 [1970] October ad p. xlix)
[Pollard Pa] Pollard, James (1797-p.1859). The Royal Mails at the Angel Inn, Islington. aquatint engraving by R. G. Reeve. Includes a coachman with a coach horn. (Selway sale, Sotheby's, 2.V.1961, lot 28 [cat. illus. poor])
[Pollard Pa] _______. North-Country Mails at the Peacock Inn, Islington. Coll. Paul Mellon. Includes a coachman with a coach horn. (exh Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1963: Painting in England 1700-1850 ... pl. 153; exh New Haven CT, Yale University, 1965: Painting in England 1700-1850 ... pl. 48 [better reproduction])
[Pollard Pa] _______. The Last Run of the Royal Mail Coach from Newcastle to Edinburgh, 5 July 1847 (1848). Paul Mellon Coll. A fairly prominent coachman holds a coach horn. (exh Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1963: Painting in England 1700-1850 ... pl. 152; S. A. Walker. Sporting Art. England 1700-1900. London 1972. fig. 83)
[Pollard Pa] _______. The London and Birmingham "Tally-Ho" Coaches. London art market (1920). Includes a coachman with a coach horn. (Cochran sale, Christie's, 13.II.1920)
[Pollard Pa] _______. Approach to Christmas. London art market (1973). Includes a coachman with a coach horn. Fine atmosphere. (sale, Sotheby's, 31.X.1973; Burlington 115 [1973] Sept. ad p. iii [poor reproduction])
[Pollard Pa] _______. Coaches at Hyde Park Corner. London art market (1927). Includes a coachman with a coach horn. (Barron sale, Christie's, 17.V.1927)
[Pollard Pa] _______. Quicksilver Royal Mail. aquatint engraving. Includes a coachman with a coach horn. (Selway sale, Christie's, 13.II.1920, lot. 56)
Concerts: [Rowlandson Pr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). Vauxhall Gardens, from Microcosm of London, vol. II. London, Ackermann, 1809. Includes an elaborate bandstand with a musical ensemble including two players of coiled horns. (MgB IV/5, p. 105)
Hunts and Hunters: See also Portraits; Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Other; Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor, Other.
[Pr Anon.] Anon., 18th century. A Hunting Coach. engraving. Among the hunters is a player of a coiled horn (bell up). (J. Damase. Carriages. New York 1968. p. not recorded) I have an unsourced clipping with the observation that "this uncomely wourche was designed to carry hunters from prey to prey in what was undoubtedly as uncomfortable a manner as possible."
[textile London V& A] Anon., late 18th century. Hunting Signal. London V & A. printed cotton textile. A huntsman on foot tooting a coiled horn while holding up a fox and surrounded by a pack of dogs. (Burlington 95 [1953] 231 [poor reproduction])
[Gooch Pa] Gooch, T. (fl. 1777-1802). Mounted Hunter. private collection. He is on horseback, with hounds, and has a coiled horn around his chest. An almost identical painting, one of a pair of the Life of a Race Horse: As a Hunter Going Out (1789). (Carlisle sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 11-15.I.1938 (going to the left); Straus sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 8.XI.1950 (going to the right)
Howitt, Samuel (ca. 1765-1822). The Death of the Fox (1791). aquatint engraving. Includes a mounted figure (prominent and clear) playing a coiled horn. (R. Nevill. Old Sporting Prints. London 1908. p. 27)
[Rowlandson Dr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). Fox Hunting: the Kill (1787). Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery. drawing. Includes a mounted figure with a coiled horn. (Hayes 1972. pl. 34. Notes etched and published 1788; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery. Gainsborough and Rowlandson Drawings ... Birmingham 1990. no. 36, p. 47 [ok reproduction], as The Death of the Fox, ca. 1786)
[Rowlandson Dr] _______. The French Hunt (1792). London BM. drawing. Caricature of a stag hunt. Includes two figures galloping along with coiled horns across their chests. (Hayes 1972. pl. 93; Schwerdt IIIb. pl. 252 [fine color reproduction]; Schwerdt sale, Sotheby's, 27.VI.1939, pl. 54 [ok reproduction])
[Rowlandson Dr] _______. "Stag at Bay -- Scene near Taplow, Berks." New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. drawing. One of the huntsmen has a coiled horn across his chest. (J. Baskett and D. Snelgrove. The Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection. New York 1978. no. and pl. 111 [fine reproduction])
[Rowlandson Dr] _______. The Death (1787). London art market (1933). drawing. Includes a prominent figure playing a 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. (sale, F. T. Sabin, London, 1933, cat. no. 95, pl. XCV, as The Death of the Roebuck [looks like a fox to me]; Schwerdt III, pl. 221 [fine color reproduction]) Aquatint published 1789 by S. W. Forbes. (Schwerdt IV, pl. 103 [fine color reproduction])
[Sartorius Pa] Sartorius, John Nost (ca. 1755-1828). Stag Hunt. London art market (1915). Includes a mounted hunter, front and center, playing a coiled horn. (Gilbey sale, Christie's, 11.VI.1915)
Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees: [BI London 1814] Walker, George (doc.1810-1820). "Bishop Blaize," from George Walker's Costume of Yorkshire. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, etc., 1814. aquatint. A procession in celebration of the patron saint of wool-combers. It includes a little military band of eight musicians, including players of a clarinet or oboe; flute, coiled horn (bell behind), large horizontal frame drum (negro) and tambourine (negro). (Art History 19 [1996] 407 [small reproduction])
[CI London ca.1790] Anon. Military Band at the Changing of the Guard, St James's Palace, ca.1790. engraving. Includes a player of a coiled horn with crooks (hand in bell). (H. G. Farmer. Military Music. London 1950. p. 41; Early Music 9 [1981] 385 [small reproduction])
[CI London 1797] Anon. Ceremony from St. James's to St. Pauls' on Tuesday, 15. December 1797, on which day their Majesties together with both Houses of Parliament went in Solemn Procession to return thanks for the Naval Victories obtained by the British Fleet over those of France, Spain and Holland. etching. One little military band steps off smartly with a drum major, large drum, four treble woodwinds, bassoon and 1-1/12 circle coiled horn (bell up). Another little band, less clearly depicted, has a drum major, large drum, field drum, two treble woodwinds and two coiled horns (bells up). (Harrison and Rimmer, no. 175b, 175a)
Street Scenes: See also Allegory, Life and Death.
[G Cruikshank Pr] Cruikshank, George (1792-1878). "The Piccadilly Nuisance, Dedicated to the Worthy Acting Magistrates of the District (29 December 1818). etching. Includes a figure in the throng who seems to carry a coach horn. (J. Wardroper. The Caricatures of George Cruikshank. London 1977. p. 66 [ok reproduction]. The scene takes place in front of Hatchett's Hotel, which was a terminus for stagecoaches.)
[Rowlandson Dr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). The Comforts of Bath: Coaches Arriving. New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. drawing. A prominent group of street musicians heralds the occasion. Men play violin, a small tapered woodwind instrument and 1-1/2 or 2-1/2 circle horn (bell up, left hand on hip). A woman plays a violin and a litle girl plays a tambourine. (J. Baskett and D. Snelgrove. The Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection. New York 1978. no. and pl. 304 [ok reproduction])
[Rowlandson Dr] _______. The Prospect Before Us. London art market. drawing. A tattered troupe with street dancers accompanied by musicians playing violin, double bass, horn (multi-coiled, looks like a large snail) and kettledrums. (Burlington 126 [1984] Nov. ad p. xvi [small reproduction])
[Rowlandson Dr] _______. Matthew Bramble's Trip to Bath: Arrival at Bath. London art market (1967). drawing. Street musicians play two violins (one a woman), oboe, coiled horn (bell up) and tambourine (woman). Clearly drawn and amusing. (Lt. Cdr. B Penrose sale, Christie's, 14.III.1967. lot. 112 [cat. illus. ok])
[Scharf Dr] Scharf, George, the elder (1788-1860). German Street Band in London, 1845. London BM. drawing. Students (?) play oboe, four coiled horns (hands in bells) and a two (?)-valve cornet and a bugle (?). Inscribed "Germans, Sept-be 1845, before my window, playing very well." Atmosphere, but unimp. (Early Music 9 [1981] 237 [small reproduction])
Views: [Rowlandson Dr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). The Thames below Richmond. London art market (1933). drawing Musicians in a boat play two coiled horns, trumpet and perhaps kettledrums. Small background detail. (F. T. Sabin sale, 1933. cat. no. 75, pl. LXXV [small reproduction])
Other: [Rowlandson Dr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). The Band. San Marino CA, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (two versions). drawing. Military musicians play three oboes, bassoon, rather small coiled horn (bell up), large frame drum and cymbals. The version with the fully realised drummer (Hayes 1972. p. 27 [fine reproduction]; Bury 1949, no. 56 [fine reproduction]; R. Southey. Mr. Rowlandson's England. Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1985. p. 16; R. R. Wark. Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection. San Marino 1975. cat. and pl. 478) The version with the unfinished drummer (R. R. Wark. Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection. San Marino 1975. cat. and pl. 479)
[Scharf Dr] Scharf, George, the elder (1788-1860). The Royal Marine Band (Woolwich) (1826). no location. drawing. They play flute, clarinet, bassoon, oboe or English horn, two cornets (with crooks), serpent, coiled horn, trombone. (H. G. Farmer. Military Music. London 1950. p. 45. no location)
Balls: [BI London 1816] Anon. Frontispiece to Thomas Wilson, A Companion to the Ball Room. London 2/1816. engraving. Includes a Country Dance accompanied by a little orchestra, including a looped horn. (MgB IV/5, p. 63)
[Burney Dr] Burney, Edward Francis (1760-1848). The Waltz. London V&A. drawing. Satirical. The orchestra, in a balcony, includes players of violin, harp, oboe, coiled horn (bell up) and pipe and tabor. There is also an unplayed cello and a small coiled horn (?). (Leppert Music and Image. p. 105 )
House Concerts/Chamber Music/Rehearsals: See also Other.
[Pr Anon.] Anon., late 18th century. "A Sunday Concert." pub. London, M. Rach, 1782. engraving. A caricature. Figures play harpsichord, two violins, cello, double bass, two oboes (one said to be J. C. Fischer), coiled horn (bell up) (Monsieur Pieltain). There is also a singer. Charles Burney is in the right foreground. (H. Fitzpatrick. The Horn and Horn-Playing, and the Austro-Bohemian Tradition from 1680-830. London, New York, 1970. pl. VIIb; Kinsky p. 229)
[J Gillray Pr] Gillray, James (1757-1815). "The Pic-Nic Orchestra." etching. Ladies play piano (?), 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. Men play violin, double bass or cello and flute. An unseen figure blows a trumpet. (Early Music 9 [1981] 6 [ok reproduction]; Early Music 13 [1985] 97)
[J Gillray Pr] _______. "Dilettanti-Theatricals. (1803)" etching. Caricature. Men play violin, bassoon, 1-1/2? circle coiled horn (bell up) and triangle. A woman sings. (C. Banerji and D. Donald. Gillray Observed. London 1999. p. 136 [ok reproduction])
[Rowlandson Dr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). The Comforts of Bath, II: The Concert. New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. drawing. A small orchestra, including a coiled horn (prominent, bell up), accompanies a singer. (J. Baskett and D. Snelgrove. The Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection. New York 1978. no. and pl. 297 [ok reproduction]; exh New York, The Frick Collection, 1990: The Art of Thomas Rowlandson. Ed. J. Hayes. no. 63, p. 155 [color reproduction], as ca.1795-1800; Bourgarel sale, Drouot, Paris, 15-16.VI.1922 [cat. illus. poor])
[Woodward Dr] Woodward, George (ca. 1760-1809). "The Musical Murder." San Marino, The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. water color. Caricature. The perpetrators are an amateur ensemble of piano, large mandolin?, two violins, cello, harp, coiled horn (bell up), trumpet, and various singers. There is also a howling cat and a screeching parrot. (Imago musicale 2 [1985] 69 [ok reproduction])
Other: [BI London 1808] John (?) Hill (1770-1850?) after Augustus Charles Pugin (1769-1832) and Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). The Interior of Astley's Ampitheatre, from The Microcosm of London. London, R. Ackermann, 1808. mezzotint. Circus performance with trick rider. Astley's Ampitheatre musters a sizeable orchestra which includes players of two coiled horns (bells up). (Connoisseur 126 [1950] 187 [fair reproduction])
[Gower Pa] Gower, T. The Hunt Breakfast, Dawn (1790). London art market (1934). A figure toots a small coiled horn. They're in rather tough shape (and so is the painting). (sale, Puttick & Simpson, London, 21. XII.1934)
[Rowlandson Dr] Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827). Four O'clock in the Country (1788). New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. drawing. Sleepy fellow getting up to join the hunt. There is a coiled horn looped over the back of a chair. (J. Baskett and D. Snelgrove. The Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection. New York 1978. no. and pl. 102 [fine reproduction]; Hayes 1972, pl. 59; Schwerdt III. pl. 219 [fine reproduction]; sale Sotheby's, 5.IV.1973; Burlington 115 [1973] March ad p. xxxvi) Etched by Rowlandson and published by S. W. Fores, 20.X.1790.
[Rowlandson Dr] _______. The Hunt Breakfast. San Marino CA, Huntington Library. drawing. Caricature. The only alert one is the huntsman summoning them with his coiled horn (bell up). (R. R. Wark. Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection. San Marino 1975. cat. and pl. 213 [ok reproduction]) Another version (sale Christie's, 27.IV.1965, lot. 78) (Connoisseur 158 [1965] April ad p. [ii])
[Rowlandson Dr] _______. The Chamber of Genius. Windsor Castle, Royal Library, Coll. H. M. the Queen. drawing. A bohemian flat with an artist and his family. Among the objects in the room are a violin and a coiled horn. unimp. (Hayes 1972. pl. 133) Hand-colored etching (1806) (exh Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987: Our Old Friend Rolly -- Watercolors, Prints and Book Illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. no. 55, p. 61). Etched and published by Rowlandson, 2.IV.1812. (Art News 45 [Sept. 1946] 39)
[Rowlandson Dr] _______. The Choir. San Marino CA, Huntington Library. drawing. Caricature of a rehearsal of a male chorus accompanied by a bassoon or bass horn (only the bocal is visible) and a reverse curve horn. (Whatever for? It looks as though someone shrunk his serpent.) (R. R. Wark. Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection. San Marino 1975. cat. and pl. 376 [ok reproduction]) Another version (private collection). (Early Music 12 [1984] 11 [ok reproduction])
Costume Series: See also Musicians/Minstrels, etc.
Musicians/Minstrels, etc.: [Clayton Pr] Clayton, B. (Alfred B. 1795-1855?), after. Drum major and Bandsman of the Grenadier Guards, 1854. lithograph. The bandsman has a valved horn. (H. G. Farmer. Military Music. London 1950. p. 38)
Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees: [CI Krommenie 1788] Jelgerhuis, Johannes (1770-1836). Rejoicing in Krommenie on the First Anniversary of the Reign of Willem V (1788). etching. Among the musicians in the procession are two players of coiled horns. They seem to be joined by a clarinet player. (Spiegel der Historie. De Nederlandse Historieprent in de Atlas van Stolk. n.p., n.d. p. 280)
Costume/Character Series: [Pr Anon.] Dutch, 1815. "Caporal Cornet des Chasseurs." engraving. He holds a small, 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (A. Baines. Brass Instruments ... London 1976. pl. X/2 [small reproduction])
Military Musicians: See also Miscellaneous Figures, Costume/Character Series.
Putti: [Luypen Wsc] Luypen, P(Pieter) (1763-doc. to 1812). Putti. Amsterdam art market (1988). wood relief. One of the blows a curved horn. (Burlington 130 [1988] September ad p. xxxi)
Hunts and Hunters: Verboeckhoven, Eugène Joseph (1799-1881). Hunters Returning (1851). New York art market (1982). Includes a mounted figure with a coiled horn. unimp. (Die Weltkunst 52 [1982] 2324 [minuscule reproduction])
Actaeon: [Pujol Pa] Pujol, Alex Denis Abel de (1785-1861). Diana and Actaeon. Fontainebleau, Château. Actaeon has a curved metal horn hanging from a strap. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 375.Ab.31.4D)
Other: [BI Paris 1797] Moreau, Jean Michel (le Jeune) (1741-1814), attr. Psyche and Cupid from J. de La Fontaine, Les amours de Psyche et da Cuipdon avec le poème d'Adonis. Paris, Saugrain, 1797. engraving. Psyche (?) and Cupid come upon a group of herdsmen or hunters, one of whom has a curved horn hung from a strap. very unimp. (Die Weltkunst 52 [1982] 3509, as Moreau or Desenne)
[BI Paris 1786/1787] Anon.? Illustration from Gulliver ressuscité, ou les voyages, campagnes et aventures extraordinaires du Baron de Munikhouson. Paris, Royes, 1786 and 1787. engraving. A coach is flying off into the air. A youth at the back of the coach blows a 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Die Weltkunst 5 [1 August 1985] p. not recorded)
Political: [Pa no location] French, late 18th century. Caricature of a State Hunt. At least fifteen hunters with curved and looped horns. According to Schwerdt, it represents the hunt of the leaders of the French Revolution in 1794. The hunters seem to belong to Emperor Franz II of Germany and Czar Paul of Russia. They are routing the French Nation and the Direcorate. (Schwerdt III, pl. 242 [fine color reproduction])
[Pa Paris Musée de l'Opéra] French? late-18th-early 19th century. Portrait of Frédéric-Nicolas Duvernoy (1765-1835). Paris, Bibliothèque et Musée de l'Opéra. He holds an Inventionshorn. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. pl. VIII [fine color reproduction])
[Augustin Min] Augustin, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques (1759-1832). Portrait of Frédéric-Nicolas Duvernoy (1765-1835) (1817). private collection. portrait miniature. He holds an Inventionshorn (with a small funnel mouthpiece). (cat. of Pierpont Morgan collection, vol. IV, no. 683; exh. Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 1956, no. 18 [fine reproduction -- the plates are at the back, not in numerical order, but it's there])
[BI Paris 1795?] Richomme, Théodore (m.1849). Title page illustration for Luigi Boccherini, Vingt-quatre Nouveaux Quintetti. Paris, Ignaz Pleyel [1795?]. engraving. Probably a passe-partout illustration. Includes a little pile of musical instruments: flute, clarinet or oboe, reverse-curve horn. very unimp. (MGG vol. 2, cols. 3-4)
[BI Paris 1811?] "Mlle. Gaucher" after design attr. Armand Charles Caraffe (1762-1822). Passe partout title page border. engraving. Includes a winged figure blowing a pipe-shaped coiled horn with an animal head bell. I guess it is supposed to be a sort of Egyptian motif. (Fraenkel no. 198: Title page of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, Le Poëte et le Musicien ou Je Cherche un Sujet. Paris, Duhan, Paris [1811?]. Fraenkel notes that on other copies the engraver is credited as Louis Charles Ruotte [1754-ca.1806]; MGG vol. 7, cols. 1049-50. Title page of Felix Dupiergé. Trois Duos Brillants. Paris, Janet et Cotelle, [n.d.])
[Me art market] Anon., ca. 1780. A pair of Louis XVI appliques. Paris art market (1979). ormolu. (An applique is an object to hang on a wall.) Each incorporates two 1-1/2 circle coiled horns and two straight trumpets. For what it's worth, each horn has a large, very shallow cup mouthpiece. An example of the decorative use of the coiled horn, but not an important one. (Burlington 121 [1979] September ad p. lxi)
[Me art market]. Anon., ca. 1805. One of a pair of French Empire bronze and ormolu caldelabra. London art market (1985). A female figure blows one and holds two large, looped horns which double as candle-holders. (Burlington 127 [1985] August ad p. xi [small reproduction])
[Malling-Guérin Pr] C[hristophe (1755-1831)?] Guérin after J.** Malling. Business card of an Instrument Maker. engraving. Includes two 2-1/2 circle coiled horns tied with bows and affixed to columns. unimp. (Mirimonde Iconographie musicale, vol. 2, fig. 13)
[Prud'hon Dr] Prud'hon, Pierre Paul (1758-1823). Design for a Concert Invitation. location unknown. drawing. Among several decorative musical instruments there is a coiled horn. unimp. (Mirimonde Iconographie musicale. vol. 2, fig. 14, no location)
Coaching Scenes: See also Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures, Other.
Hunts and Hunters: See also Allegory, Political.
[Po Munich Residenzmuseum] French (Sèvres), 1806/08. Hunt. Munich, Residenzmuseum. porcelain plate. Includes a central mounted figure at full gallop, blowing a large coiled horn. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. p. 178)
[Le Guay Dr] Le Guay, Charles Etienne (1762-1840). Hunt Picnic. Paris art market (1934). drawing (water color and gouache). The diners are serenaded by a little military band with players of two oboes, two bassoons, and two horns (hands in bells). (sale, Drouot, Paris, 12-15.XII.1910; Brasseur sale, Petit, Paris, 1.VI.1928; Charpentier, Paris, 8-9.V.1934)
[Le Guay Dr] _______. La chasse du Prince de Condé à la loge de Viarmes (now Pavillon de la Reine Blanche) (1789). gouache. Includes three mounted figures with coiled horns at various places in the foreground. (Ernest Comte de Ganay. Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle. Paris 1925. pl. XXII) Variant as Le bat-l'eau aux étangs de la Reine Blanche, à Chantilly (1789). (Mallet sale, Drouot, Paris, 9-10.II.1938 [not the painting of the Beurdeley sale, although the catalog says so])
[Le Guay Dr] _______. The Prince de Condé Hunting. Paris art market (1923). water color. Includes two mounted figures with coiled horns. water color. (Gravier sale, Paris, 3-4.V.1923)
[Mérigot Pr] Mérigot, J. (doc.1772-1814). "Rendes vous ala [sic] table ronde", from Promenade de Chantilly, 1791. etching? Includes, in the right foreground, a huntsman with a pack of dogs, a small coiled horn slung over his shoulder. (Ernest Comte de Ganay. Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle. Paris 1925. pl. V [fair reproduction])
[Perdrix Pa] Perdrix, Jean-François (a.1764-m.1809). Hunt with the Fosses of Chantilly as a Water-Course (1766). Includes one or two figures with coiled horns. (La Revue de l'Art 70 [1936] 19 [poor reproduction])
[C Vernet Pa] Vernet, Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) (1758-1836). Napoleon Hunting in the Compiègne Forest. St. Petersburg Hermitage. There are at least five figures, some mounted, some playing, with coiled horns. Prominent. (V. N. Berezina. Frantsuzskaia Zhivopis XIX veka ... Moscow 1980. pl. 53 [nice color reproduction]; Hermitage. Western European Paintings. Leningrad 1957. vol. II, no. 299 [small, fuzzy reproduction]; Leningrad, Ermitage. Frantsuzkaia Zhivopis XIX veka. Leningrad 1972. p. 69)
[C Vernet Pa] _______. Le rendez-vous de chasse. Paris art market (1956). drawing. Includes figues with coiled horns. unimp. (Baronne Cassel van Doorn sale, Charpentier, Paris, 30.V.56 [cat. illus. ok])
[C Vernet Pa] _______. Hunt. Paris art market (1934). Includes figures with coiled horns. (Schumann sale, Charpentier, Paris, 7.XII.34 [cat. illus. fair])
Other: [CI Versailles 1805] Anon. Mounted Band of the École Nationale de Musique Militaire at Versailles, 1805. woodcut. They play two clarinets or oboes, two bassoons, two trumpets and two small 2-1/2 circle coiled horns (right and left handed, hands in bells). (Harrison and Rimmer no. 176 [ok reproduction])
Banquets: [CI Versailles 1789] Anon. Banquet des gardes du corps dans le Salle de l'Opéra de Versailles (1 october 1789). engraving. Banquet on the stage. Band (including coiled horns) and brawlers in the pit. (Les monuments historiques de la France. N. S. 3 [1957] 17 [poor reproduction])
Concerts (with orchestra): [Géricault Dr] Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824). Sketch of an orchestra from the Zoubaloff Sketchbook (after ?). Paris Louvre, R. F. 6072, fol. 45. The orchestra includes players of two coiled horns. (Vis. Coll. 375d.G314.4[b]23)
Putti: [Beneman marquetry] Beneman, Guillaume (ca.1785-ca.1820). Secretary. Providence RISD. cabinetry with inlay. Two putti play 1-1/2 circle coiled horns. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 97 [March 1981] La chronique des arts no. 1346, p. 38 [minuscule reproduction])
[BI Paris 1802] Anon. Illustration of how to hold a horn, from Frédéric Duvernoy, Méthode pour le cor. Paris, A l'Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique [1802]. Musician with a coiled horn (hand in the bell). (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. p. 175)
Cana, Wedding at: [Schnorr von Carolsfeld Pa] Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Julius (1794-1872). The Wedding at Cana (1818). Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlung, KsK, Inv. 1908-741. No banquet, just a group around the wine jars, including musicians playing mandolins, a large metal horn and a child playing a triangle (and perhaps another playing a woodwind instrument). (exh Frankfurt am Main SKI 1977: Die Nazarener. cat. no. C36, p. 130)
St. Hubert/Eustache: [Passavant Pa] Passavant, Johann David (1787-1861). The Vision of St. Hubert. Frankfurt am Main SKI. The Saint (prominent staffage in a landscape) has a fat, curved horn at his waist. (R. Benz and A. von Schneider. Die Kunst der deutschen Romantik. Munich 1939. Abb. 117. As St. Eustache; exh Frankfurt am Main SKI, 1977: Die Nazarener. cat. B20, p. 78)
Apollo: See also Other.
Diana: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Hunts and Hunters.
Other: [Koch Pa] Koch, Joseph Anton (1768-1839). Apollo and the Thessalian Shepherds. Copenhagen, Thorvaldsen Museum. Includes a herdsman in the background playing an alphorn (?). (Apollo has a lyre.) unimp. (M. Valsecchi. Landscape Painting of the Nineteenth Century. Greenwich CT, 1971. fig. 207 [small reproduction])
[Koch Pa] _______. Apollo among the Shepherds. private collection. A shepherd has a small alphorn. (Apollo has a lyre, Pan has panpipes.) (exh Nuremberg GNM, 1966: Klassizismus und Romantik in Deutschland: Gemälde und Zeichnungen aus der Sammlung Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt. no. 86)
[Pfaunder Dr] Pfaundler, Anton von (1757-1822). Mythological Scene with Mermen and Mermaids. Innsbruck LMF Inv. P16. drawing. Tritons with curved and reverse-curve horns. very unimp. (Salmen Katalog. p. 64)
[Fellner Dr] Fellner, Ferdinand August (1799-1859). Kremhild's Dream. Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, KsK. drawing. Includes a figure in a tower blowing a curved horn. (R. Benz and A. von Schneider. Die Kunst der deutschen Romantik. Munich 1939. Abb. 66)
[Wintergeist Pa] Wintergeist, Joseph (1783-1867). Rudolf von Hapsburg and the Priest with the Sacrament. private collection. Three hunters, including Rudolf, have curved horns. (O. Fischer. Schwäbische Malerei des 19. Jahrhunterts. Berlin 1925. pl. 44)
[Cornelius Pa] Cornelius, Peter (1783-1867). Siegfried's Farewell (1816/17). Cologne WRM. Siegfried has a curved horn hanging from a strap. A hunter plays a curved horn. (exh Frankfurt am Main, SKI, 1977: Die Nazarener. cat. B3, p. 68)
Geographical: Vogel, Ludwig (1788-1879). Helvetia. Zürich SLM. drawing. Includes a peasant youth with a small alphorn. (His female counterpart is a peasant girl pouring milk from a pail.) (P. Wescher. Die Romantik in der schweizer Malerei. Frauenfeld 1947. Abb. 5)
Times of Day/Days of Week: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Landscapes.
[Runge Pr] Runge, Philipp Otto (1776-1810). Evening, from a Times of Day series (1803). Hamburg KH. drawing. Little naked children play various musical instruments, including two coiled horns (bells up behind them). unimp. (H. J. Neidthardt. Die Malerei der Romantik in Dresden. Lepizig 1976. no. 26; Art Bulletin 74 [1992] 101, as 1803-1805) There is also an engraving, published in 1805, with a second edition in 1807. (Burlington 130 [1988] October ad p. xiii [ok reproduction, second edition])
[Orskort Me] Orskort, Paul Johann (designer, after Dürer). Hunting medallion of Graf Franz Anton von Sporck (1723, reverse). no location. medal. motto: "Charmant souvenir." Includes a shallow curved horn held in the claws of an eagle. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 111. no location)
See also Decorative Elements.
[Overbeck Pa] Overbeck, Friedrich (1789-1869). Family Portrait. Lübeck, Behnhaus. The little son holds a tiny toy horn. (K. Andrews. The Nazarenes. Oxford 1964. pl. 16b; Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. p. 200; B. Grimschitz. Deutsche Bildnisse von Rung bis Menzel. Vienna 1941. no. 20; H. Kronberger-Frentzen. Das deutsche Familienbildnis. Leipzig 1940. no. 62; K. Scheffler. Geschichte der europäischen Malerei ... Berlin n.d. p. 109; R. Seiffert-Wattenberg. Deutsche Maler von Runge bis Menzel 1800-1850. Hannover 1934. p. 79)
[BI Vienna n.d.] Anon. Title page of Leopold Kozeluch, Deux Grands Concerts pour Le Clavecin ou Piano Forte. Vienna, The Composer, n.d. engraving. Includes two border trophies of musical instruments, each with a 2-/12 circle coiled horn. Not well depicted. very unimp. (MGG vol. 7, Taf. 72/2)
[Wsc Maria Dorfen] Anon., [early 19th century?]. Organ loft decoration. Wallfahrtskirche Maria Dorfen bei Erding. wood relief. Two of the trophies include 2-1/2 circle coiled horns. (G. Brenninger. Orgeln in Altbayern. Munich 1978. p. 165 [color reproduction])
[Pa Siegsdorf ] Hörmüller, Peter Paul (prospect). Organ loft decoration (organ 1825). Siegsdorf. Painted trophies include one with a coiled horn. (G. Brenninger. Orgeln in Altbayern. Munich 1978. p. 166, no further location)
[Nabholz Pr] Nabholz, Johann Christoph (1752-1797). Portrait of Jean Antoine Maresch (Jan Antonîn Mareš). engraving. The border includes a coiled horn (rather like an Inventionshorn). (MGG vol. 8, col. 1642)
Battles: [Adam Dr] Adam, Albrecht (1786-1862). French Troops in Russia. Paris, Musée de l'Armée. drawing. Led by a flute player/fifer with a coiled horn on his back. There is also a drummer with his drum on his shoulders. (J.-C. Quennevat. Les vrais soldats de Napoléon. Paris, Brussels, 1968. p. 78)
[P Hess Pa] Hess, Peter von (1792-1871). The Battle of Wörgl (1809). Munich, Residenzmuseum. Includes a soldier with a small 2-1/2 circle coiled horn hung at his waist. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. p. 180 [fine detail])
[W von Kobell Pa] Kobell, Wilhelm von (1766-1855). Battle near Eggmühl. Munich, Residenzmuseum. Two soldiers hold small 1-1/2 circle coiled horns. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. p. 181)
[Zix Dr] Zix, Benjamin (1772-1811). View of Custrin, with an Encampment of French Soldiers in the Foreground. location not recorded. drawing. Four of them converse, one sitting on a large frame drum, another holding his coiled horn. There is a pile of musical instruments in the foreground, perhaps including a bassoon and another coiled horn. (J.-C. Quennevat. Les vrais soldats de Napoléon. Paris, Brussels, 1968. pp. 54-55)
Boating Parties: [Hegi Pr] Hegi, Franz (1774-1850), attr. Rheinfahrt der Zürcher zum 9. Musikfest in Basel, 1820 (1823). aquatint engraving. The orchestra on the barge includes a player of a coiled horn. (MGG vol. 1, Taf. L/1 [reproduction too small])
Fairs/Festivals: [Hess Dr] Hess, Hieronymus (1799-1850). Küfertanz auf dem Marktplatz zu Basel (1846). private collection. drawing. A sort of hoop dance accompanied by musicians including two violins, double bass, clarinet and coiled horn (at the edge of the illustration, there may be more). (M. Pfister-Burkhalter. Hieronymus Hess. Basel 1952. Taf. 34. Study for the 1947 version, below.)
[Hess Pa] _______. Küfertanz auf dem Marktplatz zu Basel (1847). private collection. A sort of hoop dance accompanied by musicians playing two violins, clarinet, flute, bassoon and coiled horn. (M. Pfister-Burkhalter. Hieronymus Hess. Basel 1952. Taf. 35)
[Pflug Pr] Pflug, Johann Baptist (1785-1866). Das Eierlaufen, from Ländliche Gebräuche in Württemberg. lithograph. Village games. Includes figures playing a woodwind and a coiled horn (partly visible, hand in bell). unimp. (Johann Baptist Pflug. Aus der Räuber- und Franzosenzeit Schwabens [Erinnerungen]. Ed. M. Zengerle. Weissenborn 1966/67. pl. VII [color reproduction])
[L Quaglio Pa] Quaglio, Lorenzo II (1793-1869). Alpine Village Festival. Munich art market (1980). Students or bandsmen play bugle, one or two coiled horns and perhaps one more instrument. Attractive for the atmosphere, but the instruments are not clear even under the best of circumstances. (Die Weltkunst 50 [1980] 3511 [nice color reproduction, but one needs more detail])
[Vigée-Lebrun Pa] Vigée-Lebrun, Elisabeth (1755-1842), after (figures by F. N. König, landscape by J. G. Volmar, after sketches by EV-L). Fair in Unspunnen (1808). Zürich, Gottfried-Keller-Stiftung, depot: Bern, Kunstmuseum. On a little hill at least seven figures blow alphorns, and at a picnic table another holds an alphorn. There are perhaps more. (exh Zürich, Kunsthaus, 1965: Meisterwerke der Gottfried-Keller-Stiftung. Schweizer Kunst aus neun Jahrhunderten. p. 115 [poor reproduction])
Hunts and Hunters: See also Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures; Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Views.
[Lohr a. M., Spessart Museum] Anon (Marktheidenfeld), 1788. Hunter. Lohr a. M., Spessart Museum. tile on a tile oven (Kachelofen). He is on a rearing horse, playing a looped horn (it looks more as though he is smoking a pipe). Primitive illustration. very unimp. (Die Weltkunst 59 [19890 1771)
[Horny Pa] Horny, Franz (1797-1824). Departure for the Hunt. Munich art market (1972). Includes a mounted hunter with a partly visible horn of some sort. very unimp. (Die Weltkunst 52 [1972] 1781 [poor reproduction])
[W von Kobell Dr] Kobell, Wilhelm von (1766-1855). Boar Hunt. private collection. Includes a dog handler with a curved horn at his back. (Schwerdt III, pl. 247 [fine color reproduction])
[Rugendas Pr] Rugendas, Johann Lorenz (1775-1826). Die Par force Jagd/La Chasse par force (no. 4 of a set of 6). aquatint engraving. Stag hunt. Includes a prominent mounted figure galloping along, blowing a rather large 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. A lady jumping a fence is followed by cavaliers. Very lively. The lady dominates. (Schwerdt III, pl. 222, as Augsburg, ca. 1810)
[Schnorr von Carolsfeld Dr] Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Julius (1794-1872). The Arrival of the Hunter (1819). Munich art market (1979). drawing. The hunter, in a sort of medieval costume, plays a deeply curved horn with a cross-piece. unimp. (Die Weltkunst 49 [1979] 2910 [small reproduction])
[Strack Pa] Strack, Ludwig Philipp (1761-1836). A Sacrifice to Diana. London art market (1972). Includes a hunter with a looped horn and perhaps another with a curved horn on his back. unimp. (Apollo 96 [1972] December ad p. 106)
Landscapes: Dorner, Johann Jakob, the Younger (1775-1852). Am Königssee (1821). Munich art market. Includes a little wind band with two players of coiled horns (hands in bells). (Münchner Maler im 19. Jahrhundert. Munich 1981. vol. I, p. 252)
[Koch Pa] Koch, Joseph Anton (1768-1839). Landscape near Berne (1817). Innsbruck TLF. Includes a youth on the roof of a little stone tower blowing a small alphorn. (E. Egg. Kunst in Tirol, II: Malerei und Kunsthandwerk. Innsbruck 1972. [fine color reproduction]; R. Feuchtmüller. Kunst in Österreich, II. Vienna 1973. Abb. 133; R. Feuchtmüller and W. Mrazek. Biedermeier in Österreich. Vienna 1963. fig. 23; M. Neusser-Hromalka. Österreich. Kunst und Kunstschätze. St.Johann in Tirol 1956. pl. 82; Vis. Coll. 373.K811.8[e])
[Koch Pa] _______. The Waterfall at Schmadribach. Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste. Includes a shepherd blowing an alphorn. Tiny detail. (Vis. Coll. 373.K811.8[f])
[Koch Pa] _______. The Waterfall at Schmadribach. Munich AP. Includes a shepherd blowing an alphorn. (Vis. Coll. 373.K811.8S)
[Koch Pa] _______. The Waterfall at Schmadribach II. Munich AP. Includes a peasant (tiny figure) carrying an alphorn. (Imago musicae 7 [1990] 162 [small reproduction])
[Koch Pa] _______. Unterseen. private collection. Includes a cowherd with an alphorn. (W. Geese. Die heroische Landschaft von Koch bis Böcklin. Strasbourg 1930. [SdK 271] pl. X)
Molitor, Martin von (1759-1812). River Landscape with a Ruin (1808). private collection. gouache. A shepherd blows a long, curved horn (small alphorn). (H. Fuchs. Die oesterreichischen Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts, vol. III. Vienna 1973. p. 136)
[Schinkel Pa] Schinkel, Karl Friedrich (1781-1841). A View of the Spree near Stralau (1817). Berlin SMPK. A wall painting for the Humbert House, Berlin. Sometimes called Night. Two men, being poled around in a boat in the moonlight, play coiled horns (hands in bells). (H. Börsch-Supan. Deutsche Romantiker. Munich 1972. p. 93 [color reproduction]; E. Klessmann. Die Welt der Romantik. Munich 1969. p. 70; H. Ludwig. Erlebnis Berlin. 300 Jahre Berlin im Spiegel seiner Kunst. 4/Berlin 1975. no. 69 [fine reproduction]; exh Bremen, Kunsthalle, 1967: Berliner Biedermeier von Blechen bis Menzel. no. 107, p. 88; E. Börsch-Supan. "Die Bedeutung der Musik im Werke Karl Friedrich Schinkels." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 34 [1971] 257-295, this reproduced p. 269; Vis. Coll. 373.Sch34.90[b]1)
[Schinkel Pa] _______. The Königssee near Berchtesgaden (1811). Berlin SMPK. Includes a boating party serenaded by two players of coiled horns. (Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 34 [1971] 266, with location Schinkelmuseum, Nationalgalerie)
[Vogel Pa] Vogel, Ludwig (1788-1879). Landscape with view of the Staubbach. private collection. Figures include a goatherd with a small alphorn. There is a spectacular waterfall. (P. Wescher. Die Romantik in der schweizer Malerei. Frauenfeld 1947. Abb.51)
Processions/Cavalcades/Entrees: [Dr Nördlinger] S. German (local artist), late 18th century. Umzug der Lodweberzunft in die neue Herberge/The Weavers' Guild Moving to New Quarters, 1780. Nördlingen, Stadtmuseum?. drawing. A guild procession with civic (?) musicians playing four violins, two cellos, a coiled horn, and one more instrument. (Die Kunstdenkmäler ... Bayern, VII/2: Nördlingen. Munich 1940. p. 356 [detail], with location as Reichsstadt Museum)
[Forster Pr] Forster, J. P. "Die Modenwelt oder Die Maskerade auf Schlitten, angeführt von den Herren Studenten des Hochfürstl. Bischof. Schulhauses bey St. Paul zu Regensburg den 23. Jänner 1792." etching. A procession of sleighs. One of the musical ensembles includes a player of a coiled horn (bell up). (MgB IV/4, p. 181 [not helpful for details])
[Dr private collection] German?, late 18th century. Band of the Prussian Infantry Regiment "Von Armin," Berlin, Unter den Linden. drawing. Coll. H. M. the Queen. The band has at least fifteen members, including two players of coiled horns (bells down, hands in bells?). (A. E. H. Miller and N. P. Dawnay. Military Drawings and Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. London [1966-1970]. cat. no. 354, pl. 162. The plate caption dates as ca. 1790, the text as ca. 1795.)
[Pa Bozen Museum] Anon., late 18th century. Reception of Empress Maria Luise in the Kapuzinergasse, Bozen/Bolzano 6.V.1790. Bozen/Bolzano (S. Tirol), Museum der Stadt. Includes a wind band of abour thirteen musicians, including a player of a coiled horn. (W. Salmen. ... Österreich. Innsbruck 1979. p. 11 [detail, still difficult to make out the details])
[Dürr Pa] Dürr, Johann Sebastian (op. ca. 1817). Harvest Festival Procession, Überlingen, 1817. Überlingen, Reichlin-Meldegg Museum. gouache. Includes a little military band with players of flute, clarinet, coiled horn, two trumpets, and a boy playing triangle. (M. Schefold. Alte Ansichten aus Baden. Weissenhorn 1971. pl. 620 [color reproduction, large but not good for details])
[Schinkel Copy Pa] Copy by Bonte (1823) after Carl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841). Imaginary Harvest Procession. Berlin SMPK. Includes two players of coiled horns sitting beneath a huge oak (?) tree. (Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 34 [1971] 267)
Reviews (Military): [Pr Anon.] Anon. (Nuremberg), early 19th century. Military Review in a Park. engraving. Includes a military band, including a player of a coiled horn (bell down, perhaps hand in bell), in a circle around a tree. (J.-C. Quennevat. Les vrais soldats de Napoléon. Paris, Brussels, 1968. fig. 27)
[Bourgeois de Hambourg Dr] "Le Bourgeois de Hambourg." (fl. early 19th century). A Small Group of Soldiers and Officers Marching. Paris BN CdE. drawing. One carries a coiled horn (partly visible). unimp. (J.-C. Quennevat. Les vrais soldats de Napoléon. Paris, Brussels, 1968. p. 51 [fine color reproduction])
[Bourgeois de Hambourg Dr] _______. Five Soldiers and Officers. Paris, Musée de l'Armée. drawing. One plays a coiled horn (not accurately depicted, perhaps intended to be an Inventionshorn, hand perhaps in bell). (J.-C. Quennevat. Les vrais soldats de Napoléon. Paris, Brussels, 1968. fig. 36)
[Weger Pr] Weger, Josef (1782-1840). Feierlicher Aufzug der Tiroler Schützen (1796). pub. Trent, Giuseppe Antonio Marietti, no. 336. aquatint engraving. A procession of Tyrolean militia, with an 11-piece military band of two oboes or clarinets, two bassoons, two trumpets, two coiled horns (hands in bells), cymbals, jingling johnny and frame drum. (SalmenKatalog. p. 114)
Street Scenes: [CI Munich 1809] Schiessl, Ferdinand. The Schweiger-Theater near the Karlstor, Munich, 1809. colored lithograph. Musicians in a wooden outdoor gallery (crudely depicted) pause, with violin, double bass, 1-1/2 circle coiled horn and one more instrument. unimp. (Kreis der Freunde Alt-Münchens. Schönes altes München. Munich 1965. p. 23)
[Adam Pr] Adam, Albrecht (1786-1862). Der Schäfflertanz an der Sendlinger Strasse, from Sammlung bayerischer National-Costume. colored lithograph. Includes a group of musicians, including a player of an Inventionshorn (hand in bell). (Kreis der Freunde Alt-Münchens. Schönes altes München. Munich 1965. p. 236)
[Opitz Pr] Opitz, Georg Emanuel (1775-1841). Miner Musicians playing in the Courtyard of Auerbachs Keller, Leipzig(1825). colored lithograph. They play or hold a double bass, violin, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet and horn (hand in bell, with two little loops in the mouthpipe that I guess are supposed to represent crooks). (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. Taf. XIV [fine color reproduction])
Views: See also Battles, Landscapes.
[Pa Glücksburg] Anon., late 18th century. View of Schloss Glücksburg. Glücksburg, Schloss. Includes a mounted huntsman, following carriages with his dog, blowing a coiled horn. A return from the hunt. (Die Kunstdenkmäler des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, 6: Landkr. Flensburg. Munich, Berlin 1952. Abb. 176)
[Pa Luckau Rathaus] Anon., first half, 19th century. View of the Rathausplatz, Luckau, with a Military Review ("Auszug des Lukauer Schützenkorps"). Luckau, Rathaus. Includes a military band. Are there horns? (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Brandenburg, V/1: Luckau. Berlin 1917. p. 382)
[wallpaper Anon.] Anon., ca. 1814. Return of the Cows from Summer Pasture, with a View of Arlesheim. wallpaper. The so-called "Helvetia-Tapete." Manufactured by Zuber & Co., Rixheim (Alsatia). A peasant youth blows an alphorn and a couple dances. (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz, 57: Kanton Basel-Landschaft I. Basel 1969. p. 136)
[J H Tischbein] Tischbein, Johann Heinrich, senior (1722-1789). "Vue du nouveau chateau de Weisenstein du Cote du midi." (1789). engraving. View of Wilhelmshöhe with a figure blowing a coiled horn, standing in the bow of a gondola. Relatively prominent, in the right center foreground. (Wilhelmshöhe. Natur und Formergeist in dem schönsten Bergpark Europas. Kassel 1961. p. 44 [small reproduction])
[J H Tischbein-Weise Pr] Gotthelf Wilhelm Weise (1751-[after?] 1810) after Johann Heinrich Tischbein, senior (1722-1789). "Vue de [sic] nouveau chateau de Weisenstein du cote couchant" (1788). engraving. View of Wilhelmshöhe, with a figure blowing a coiled horn in a boat in the background. (Wilhelmshöhe. Natur und Formergeist in dem schönsten Bergpark Europas. Kassel 1961. p. 45 [small reproduction])
[Ziegler Pr] Ziegler, Johann (ca.1756-ca.1812). View of St. Veit (near Vienna) and Environs. aquatint engraving. Villagers dance beside a vineyard, accompanied by players of hurdy-gurdy (?), violin and coiled horn. (K. Reinohl. Wien Anno 1786. Vienna 1947. pl. 25 [minuscule reproduction]; MgB IV/4, p. 99 [detail])
Village/Rustic Scenes: See also Views.
[BI Bern 1818] Anon. Title illustration of the Sammlung von Schweizer-Kühreihen und Volksliedern. Bern 3/1818. lithograph? Includes a cow- and goat-herd playing an alphorn to the sunset. (MGG vol. 1, Taf. XIII/1; Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 233 [after MGG ?])
[BI Bern 1826] Anon. Illustration from the Sammlung von Schweizer-Kühreihen und Volksliedern. Bern 4/1826. engraving? Includes a man with an alphorn and a woman with a mandolin, sitting, listening to a yodeler. (MGG vol. 1, Taf. XIII/2)
Hess, Peter von (1792-1871). Morning in Partenkirchen. St. Petersburg, Hermitage. Includes a figure blowing a cowhorn. Lithograph by Moritz Lotze (1809-1890). (Münchner Maler im 19. Jahrhundert. Munich 1981. vol. I, p. 177)
[L II Quaglio Dr] Quaglio, Lorenzo II (1793-1869). Brautempfang am Tegernsee. Munich art market. water color. The arrival of the bride by boat across the Tegernsee. She is welcomed by a little wind band which seems to consist of players of two coiled horns, a bugle, and perhaps one other instrument. They are unclear under the best of circumstances, alas. (Die Weltkunst 57 [1987] 2797 [color reproduction], with reference to L. Balogh. Die bayerische Seelandschaft in der Münchner Malerei. Abb. 21)
Other: [BI Offenbach 1802] Anon. Title page of W. A. Mozart, Musikalischer Spass. Offenbach, Johann Anton André [1802]. engraving. Musicians playing two voilins, viola, double bass and two 1-1/2 circle coiled horns (hands in bells) stand around a table. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 157; Fraenkel no. 195; M. Remnant. Musical Instruments of the West. London 1978. p. 145; Early Music 20 [1992] 4 [seems to be a worn impression], as ca.1801)
[Ender Dr] Ender, Thomas (1793-1875). Sailors Making Music on Bord the Frigate Austria. Vienna, Akademie der bildenden Künste. water color. Three sailors play coiled horns (hands in bells). Another plays a bass drum. One of a series of illustrations of a voyage to Brazil. (exh Graz, LMJ, 1959: Die Kammermaler um Erzherzog Johann. cat. no. 170, unnumbered pl.)
Freudweiler, Heinrich (1755-1795). Circus. private collection (1914). The circus band includes players of clarinet, coiled horn (bell up), cymbals (negro). (exh Darmstadt, 1914: Deutsches Barock und Rokoko. Ed. G. Biermann. vol. II, Abb. 959)
[Friedrich Dr] Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840). Wanderer am Meilenstein (1802). Munich SgS. drawing. Includes a looped post horn carved in relief on the milestone. (Die Weltkunst 50 [1980] 16, with reference to exh Munich SgS: Deutsche und österreichische Arbeiten von 1790-1850)
Juillerat, Jacques Henri (1777-1860). Alphorn Lesson. no location. watercolor? Four alphorn players, the oldest giving a lesson to the youngest. (G. Amweg. Les arts dans le Jura Bernais et a Bienne. Porrentruy 1937. p. 329)
Balls: [Pollencig Dr] Pollencig, Joseph (doc.1786-95). "Grosser Ball bey Sr. Königl. Hoheit des Paladins, Ofen den 11den Februar 1795." Budapest SM. drawing. The ball orchestra includes two players of coiled horns (hands in bells). (MgB IV/5, p. 117)
House Concerts, Chamber Music, Rehearsals: [BI Winterthur 1783] Schellenberg, Johann Rudolf (1740-1806). House Concert, from Neujahrsblatt (1783) of the Bürgerbibliothek, Winterthur. engraving. Figures play harpsichord or piano, two violins (or violin and viola), double bass, flute, tiny 1-1/2 circle horn (bell up). One or two sing. (MGG vol. 13, cols. 723-24 [fair reproduction])
[Pa St. Gall HM] Anon., first half, 19th century. House Music. St. Gall, Historisches Museum. painted door of a house organ. In a very elegant setting, young men play clarinet, small wodwind and 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn (with a crook). Three young ladies sing. (MgB IV/3, p. 176 [fuzzy reproduction])
[Pa Zürich SLM] Anon., early 19th century. House Music. Zürich SLM. painted door of a house organ. Family members play violin (younger son), harp (mother), clarinet (father), horn (bell up, at the back, one or two crooks) (older son), triangle (daughter). (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz, 61: Kantons Appenzell, Ausserrhoden I. Basel 1973. p. 253; MgB IV/3, p. 176)
[Pa no location] Austrian (Neuburg in der Steiermark), first half, 19th century. Village Music Ensemble. Vienna, Oesterreichisches Museum für Volkskunde. Tischzeichen, side A. Figures (students?) play violin, clarinet, bassoon, 2-1/2 circle coiled horn (one crook, held bell down and to the side). The border decoration includes a basset horn, oboe, clarinet, coiled horn and trumpet. (L. Schmidt, Volksmusik. Salzburg 1974; Musica calendar, 1977: 6-19 March [fine color reproduction])
[Pa no location] _______. side B. Court Musicians. Caricatural. They play double bass, recorder pausing and grimacing, while the enraged conductor pulls his hair), oboe, trumpet and two coiled horns (hands in bells?). (L. Schmidt, Volksmusik. Salzburg 1974; Musica calendar, 1979: 4-17 November [fine color reproduction]) [silhouette Schloss Harburg] Anon., ca. 1790. Wallerstein Court Musicians. Harburg über Donauwörth, Fürstliche Oettingen-Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek und Kunstsammlung. silhouette (etching on gold glass). A little band of double bass, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, bassoon and two coiled horns (Inventionshörner?, bells down -- they are pausing). (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 153. Identifies the horn players as probably Joseph Nagel and Franz Zwierzina.; MGG vol. 14, cols. 169-70; The New Grovevol. 8, p. 168; Early Music 12 [1990] 45 [miserable reproduction])
[Po (Meissen) art market] German (Meissen), ca. 1780. Musical Group. German art market (1981). porcelain figure group. The ladies play hurdy-gurdy and mandolin (?), the men play flute and coiled horn. (sale, Schloss Ricklingen, 30.X-13.XI.1981; Die Weltkunst 51 [1981] 3056)
[Hess Dr] Hess, Hieronymus (1799-1850). Die päpstliche Kapelle oder Klosterkonzert in Mariastern(1848, after a sketch of 1834). Basel KsK, Inv. no. 1927.240. water color. Caricature. Ten clerics play musical instruments, including a coiled horn, and four sing. (M. Pfister-Burkhalter. Hieronymus Hess. Basel 1952. Taf. 21b)
Inn Interiors: [Pr Anon.] Anon., early 19th century. A Dance in an Inn, with French Troops, Nuremberg, 1806. engraving. A dance in an inn. Includes musicians playing violin, woodwind, coiled horn (bell up) and a deep frame drum. (J. C. Quennevat. Les vrais soldats de Napoléon. Paris, Brussels, 1968. no. 70, p. 89)
Interiors: [BI Breslau 1824] Meier, L. Weihnachtsstube, from W. Harnisch, Der Himmelsgarten. Breslau 1824. engraving. A room prepared for Christmas festivities. Objects include a toy posthorn on a table and a toy drum on the floor. (Die Weltkunst 48 [1978] 2944. E. Semrau. "Weihnachtsbilder im alten Kinderbüchern." pp. 2944-46.)
Other: [BI Zürich 1784] Anon. The traditional distribution of the Neujahrsblattausgabe, on the second of January in the "oberen Stube" of the Chorherrenstiftes. Title engraving of the Neujahrsblattes of the Musikgesellschaft der mehrern Stadt, Zürich, 1784. engraving. The distribution is accompanied by an orchestra of the members, including players of two looped horns (bells up). (F. Jakob. Der Orgelbau im Kanton Zürich. Bern 1971. Abb. 17 [ok reproduction])
Costume/Character Series: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Street Scenes; Miscellaneous Figures, Postriders.
[Monten-Troendlin Pr] Ludwig Sigmuind Troendlin (1798-ca.1864) after Dietrich Monten (1799-1843). Hornist ("Hautbois") des 10. Bayerischen Linien-Infanterie-Regiments, from Die Bayerische Armee, nach der Ordonnanz von 1825. colored lithograph. He holds an Inventionshorn (actually he seems to be holding two horns). (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. pl. IX [fine color reproduction])
Itinerant/Street Musicians: [Waldmüller Dr] Waldmüller, Ferdinand Georg (1793-1865). Three Sketches of Musicians. Vienna OeNB. drawing. Street musicians? They play violin, a sort of generic woodwind and 2-1/2 (?) circle coiled horn (hand in bell). (Musica calendar 1979: 22 April - 5 May [ok reproduction])
Musicians (amateur and professional): [Dr Freiberg in Sachsen] German, 1827. A Miner Musician (Berghautboist) from Freiberg in Sachsen with a Russian horn. Freiberg in Sachsen, Stadt- und Bergbaumuseum. watercolor? (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. Taf. XIII [fine color reproduction])
[Pr Anon.] Anon. (Nuremberg) 18th century. Habsburgische Feldmusik. engraving. Military musicians playing flute, oboe (?), coiled horn (bell down, right hand on hip), cymbals and two frame drums. (Ott 1963, fig. 83)
[Wsc Graz LMJ] Austrian (Styrian), ca. 1800. Musicians. Graz LMJ, Abteilung für Kunstgewerbe, Inv. No. 17571. wooden gingerbread mold. The musicians play double bass and 2-1/2 circle coiled horn. (Salmen Katalog. p. 132)
[Wsc Vienna OeMfV] Austrian (Salzkammergut), ca. 1800. Eight Musicians. Vienna, Oesterreichisches Museum für Volkskunde. wooden Lebkuchenmodel. They play violin, four woodwinds, a little looped horn, cymbals and one more instrument. (L. Schmidt. Das Oesterreichische Museum für Volkskunde. Vienna 1960. fig. 41 [useless reproduction])
[Po (Frankenthal) Mannheim Reiss-Museum] German (Frankenthal), ca. 1780. Page and Dog. Mannheim, Städtisches Reiss-Museum. porcelain figure (group). The page plays an Inventionshorn. (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976, p. 150)
[Hess Pa] Hess, Hieronymus (1799-1850). Alphornbläser. private collection. Alphorn player in an alpine landscape. The instrument has a huge mouthpiece. A bit caricatural (he has incredibly muscular legs). (M. Pfister-Burkhalter. Hieronymus Hess. Basel 1952. Taf. 17b)
[Opitz Dr] Opitz, Georg Emanuel (1775-1814). Itinerant Musicians at the Leipzig Fair. Leipzig, Stadtgeschichtliches Museum. drawing. Women play harp, flute and large 1-1/2 circle coiled horn. A man plays a violin and a girl sings. (H. Engel. Musik und Gesellschaft ... Berlin-Halensee 1960. opp. p. 305, as ca.1820)
[Sohn Workshop Po] Anton Sohn (Workshop) after Hieronymus Hess (1799-1850). Horn Player. Heidelberg, Kurpfälzisches Museum. terra cotta figure. He plays a coiled horn (hand in bell). (Brüchle and Janeztky 1976, p. 173) Another in Karlsruhe LM. (Die Weltkunst 52 [1982] 3320 [tiny reproduction])
Postriders: [Dr Frankfurt am Main HM] German, ca. 1800. Thurn und Taxis Post Rider. Frankfurt am Main, Historisches Museum. drawing. He has a little 2-1/2 circle coiled post horn. A perfect illustration. (F. Lübbecke. Das Palais Thurn und Taxis zu Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 1955. p. 413)
[Dr Frankfurt am Main BPM] Anon., ca. 1820. "Fürstlich Braunschweig-Lüneburgische Postillione. Frankfurt am Main, Bundespostmuseum. water color. One has a 2-1/2 circle coiled posthorn hanging from a lanyard. (Early Music 9 [1981] 519)
[Klein Pa] Klein, Johann Adam (1792-1875). The Postilion and His Family (1822). Vienna art market (1911). He is in uniform, on his horse, with a 3-1/2 circle posthorn. Amusing. (sale, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Vienna, 28.IV.11 [cat. illus. ok])
_______. Bavarian Postilion in Winter Uniform (1817). engraving. He is on horseback and plays a 3-1/2 circle posthorn. (Hiller Posthorn. p. 88 [ok reproduction])
_______. Zum nenen Jahr 1817. Bayerische Post. engraving. A postilion blows a 3-1/2 circle coiled posthorn. (E. Kiesskalt. Die Entstehung der deutschen Post ... Erlangen [1938]. p. 338)
[L II Quaglio Pa] Quaglio, Lorenzo II (1793-1869). Postillion Watering his Horse Outside an Inn. Munich art market (1976). He has a 2-1/2 circle coiled posthorn hanging from a lanyard. He gazes intently at a young woman washing dishes outside the inn, while his horse seems to take a wary view of the encounter. (Die Weltkunst 46 [1976] p. 2024 [sale Munich 10-13 November] [fine reproduction])
Putti: See also Mythology, Other; Allegory, Times of Day/Days of Week..
Shepherds: [Wsc? Börlas] Anon. (folk artist), late 18th century. Shepherd. Börlas, St. Wendelin Chapel. wood? He has a short curved horn with a wide, flaring bell. unimp. (Die Kunstdenkmäler ... Bayern, VII/8: Sonthofen. Munich 1964. p.169)
Other: [Pr Anon.] Anon., early 19th century. "Das Gecken-Berndchen." woodcut. Carnival figure from Cologne dressed as a knight, holding aloft an enormous curved horn with a banner. (exh Kölnisches Stadtmuseum 1972/73: Masken und Narren. Tradition der Fastnacht. p. 21)
Nativity -- Adoration of the Magi: [presepe Munich BNM] Anon. (Naples), second half, 18th century. Adoration of the Magi. Munich BNM. presepe. Two of the musicians in the Turkish military band play small horns with crooks (cf. Baines no. 710 -- a posthorn). (Brüchle and Janetzky 1976. Taf. IV [fine color reproduction])
[Pinelli Pr] Giuseppe Mochetti (doc.1814) after Bartolommeo Pinelli (1781-1835). I soldati Romani sulle rovine del Tempio di Gerusalemme proclamano Tito Imperatore, from Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier Storia degli Imperatori Romani da Augusto sino a Costantini. Rome, Giunchi & Menicanti, 1836. etching. Includes a Roman soldier with a rather large curved horn. (exh Rome, CIC Pantheon, 1983: Bartolommeo Pinelli ... p. 342 [ok reproduction, not exhibited])
[Pinelli Pr] _______. The Sabine Women Interposed between the Sabines and the Romans (1814). Milan art market (1988). drawing. Among the Sabine military is a mounted figure blowing a looped horn. (exh Milan, La Portantina, 1988. Disgeni di maestri antichi e dell'ottocento. Ed. M. Jona. Milan 1988. no. 40 [ok reproduction])
Carnival: [Pinelli Pr] Pinelli, Bartolommeo (1781-1835). Roman Carnival, 1811. etching. Includes musicians on a platform playing viola, double bass and looped horn (a bit larger than a posthorn). (Apollo 114 [1981] 18 [ok reproduction])
Concerts: [Pr Anon.] Anon., [1780's, from the looks of the ladies' hats]. Concert in a Formal Garden (Passe-partout illustration of the Florentine Publisher Giovanni Chiari). engraving. The orchestra includes two players of coiled horns (bells up). The horns seem to have been later additions, for the position of their players' hands is that of a violin player! (Pincherle 1959, p. 127)
Garden Parties: See also Concerts.
Fairs/Festivals: [BI Paris 1823] François le Villain (op.1823-24) after Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas (1791-1834). Religious Festival with a Hot-Air Balloon, from Un an à Rome et dans ses environs. Paris 1823. lithograph. Includes a little military (?) band with two clarinets (of unequal sizes), bassoon (?), horn (hand in bell) and bass drum. (R. Levi Pisetzky. Storia del costume in Italia, V. Milan 1969. fig. 173 [color reproduction])
Views: [Fabris Pa] Fabris, Pietro (doc.1778). Scene at Baia, near Naples. Edinburgh, City Art Centre. A view of the Bay of Naples, with one or two couples dancing, accompanied by musicians playing two violins and a coiled horn (bell up). (Burlington 130 [1988] 725 [minuscule reproduction]
Other: [Bison Fr] Bison, Giuseppe Bernardino (1762-1844). Charles VI Grants Trieste the Status of a Free Port. Trieste, Palazzo della vecchia Borsa. fresco. Trompe l'oeil figures around the edge include a group with oboe, two bassoons and coiled horn (?). (Arte veneta 22 [1968] 161, 162 [detail of the horn player], 163 [fine color detail of the oboe and horn players, but not the side one needs])
[Martini Pa] Martini, Biagio (1761-1840). The Meeting of Paolo III Farnese and Charles V at Busseto. Busseto MC. Includes a wind band. With horns? (C. Jacini. Il viaggio del Po, III. Milan 1940. unnumbered plate after p. 290 [useless reproduction])
Balls: [cut-out Anon.] Anon. Ball in the Palazzo Trucchi di Levaldigi, Turin, 1791. decupure (cut out). The orchestra of ca. 19 musicians includes players of two coiled horns. (exh Turin, 1969: Imagini di Torino nei secoli. Ed. A. Peyrot and V. Viale. no. 282)
[CI Naples 1799] Anon. Ballo di patrioti nella Certosa di San Martino [Naples]. Water color drawing inserted in a copy of Memoria degli avvenimenti popolari seguiti in Napoli in gennaio 1799. pubr. E. Palermo. Naples, Museo e la Certosi di S. Martino. Accompanied by a little ensemble with musicians playing violin, double bass, woodwind, serpent, two coiled horns (bells up). (G. Doria. Il Museo e la Certosa di S. Martino. Naples 1964. p. 52)
Operatic or Theatrical Scenes: [Gatti Pa] Gatti, Giacomo (m. 1817). Paisiello Conducting a Rehearsal of Rossini's The Barber of Seville in the Presence of Catherine the Great. no location. The small orchestra includes two players of coiled horns (partly visible, bells down, hands in bells?). (Early Music 1 [1973] 65 [background for the table of contents, no location)
Other: [CI Venice 1782] Baratti, Antonio. Gala Performance at the San Benedetto Theater in Venice, 22 January 1782, in Honor of the Grand Duke and Duchess of Russia. engraving. A sort of reception with two orchestras (one pausing). Includes two players of coiled horns (bells down, hands in bells?). (H. C. R. Landon and J. J. Norwich. Five Centuries of Music in Venice. London 1991. p. 102 [fine color detail with the orchestra at the left, with the horn players]; Pincherle p. 126 [ok reproduction])
Fountain Figures: [Pinelli Dr] Pinelli, Bartolommeo (1781-1835). Festa della mozzatrici a piazza Barberini. etching? Includes a fountain figure (Triton) blowing a large shell horn. (exh Rome ... Pantheon 1983: Bartolommeo Pinelli. p. 27 [color reproduction])
[Pinelli Pr] _______. Carnival in Rome. etching. Comedians dance and play mandola. There is a fountain figure blowing a shell horn. (Imago musicae 7 [1990] 175 [ok reproduction])