A most unusual and delightful caricature, which seems more like Chagall than early-nineteenth-century England! It is a hand-colored lithograph depicting a rather bizarre scene of a tea party in the clouds, with a befuddled conductor leading an unlikely singing group and various musicians playing equally unlikely instruments, including a one-man band. There are nice added touches such as a honking goose, a rocking horse, and fat dressed angels floating around. The artist is unknown; a monogram appears in the image: 9 fec.

Mount Parnassus is the mountain in Greece which, according to mythology, was the sacred home to Apollo and the Muses and consequently the source of music, literature, poetry, and all learning. It is thought that this image may illustrate one of the "Parnassus plays" which were produced at the University of Cambridge at the end of the sixteenth century.