© Robert W. Eshbach 2014

Monday Popular Concerts, London

JJ Monday Popular Concerts 1855 copy

Note the interesting cross-legged way of sitting, as well as the arrangement of the players. Piatti sits on a box for height only — he has no endpin.

[London Society: An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation 13 (1868). London: Office, 217, Piccadilly, W.: 478.]

By contrast, this illustration from the Illustrated London News, 2 March 1872, p. 201:

Neruda Monday Pops]

The players are Wilhelmina Norman-Neruda (Lady Hallé), Louis Ries, Ludwig Straus and Alfredo Piatti.