Rob MacKillop wrote: >It is old hat, David. The link to your image doesn't work for me, but I >think it would show the same image which has been on my website for many >years: http://www.musicintime.co.uk/varioushistories.htm and Peter Forrester >wrote an article about it for Lute News (which edition, Peter?). Or have you >found something else, David? > >I can't comment on the cittern - hopefully Peter can. But for me the >interest is the instrument to the right of the cittern player - a harmonium. >The bell-end flute is of interest too. I've tried for years to get this >consort recreated. I even tried to get Historic Scotland, or whoever it is >that owns the castle, to sponsor a recording - but to no avail. > >Apparently there are similar ceilings elsewhere in Europe, so it doesn't >automatically mean it is a painting of an actual consort in Aberdeenshire. >But it must be the most beautifully preserved painting. > >Maybe you should do a similar painting on your own bedroom ceiling, David? >It would make a change from the mirror! > > > Yes, that's the image. I have repaired my server now so some good done. Don't you think that the cittern looks extremely like a 17th century type?
Your mono repro of the baroque guitar painting at Paxton House is still labelled as by Allan Ramsay, Paxton have long stopped saying this because the painting isn't by Ramsay. David To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
