1-624-616 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'If musick's charms can hearts enthral, this consort's sure above 'em all. How sweet the sound where cats and bears, with brutish noise offend our ears, just so the foreign singers move, rather contempt than gain our love: were such discouraged we should find, musick at home to charm the mind', 1730. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).