Volume 1

The Farington diary / edited by James Greig.

  • Joseph Farington
Date:
[1922?-1928]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Farington diary / edited by James Greig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    members living at the Commemoration of the 25th year, December 31st, I793-] After Dinner the King’s health being given the instrumental musi¬ cians, agreeable to what had been settled with Mr. West, rose for the purpose of playing a concerto. This was attended with an unpleasant necessity. There being no room on the outside of the tables for the admission of the Harpsichord, it was brought into the center between the tables, which obliged many members to leave their seats. From this time it became rather a concert with intervals, than a meeting where conversation could have any share. Boswell and others disliked it much. But Opie, Fuseli, and Northcote, were most conspicuous in their non-attendance to it.