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  • Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • Page 113: Krishna playing his flute to the cows and Radha who is immersed in the river, while an old man smoking a hookah observes. Watercolour drawing.
  • Saint Cecilia with Saint Paul the Apostle, Saint John the Evangelist, a bishop and Saint Mary Magdalen. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Raphael.
  • Hunting: snares for catching ground-feeding birds, and musical notation of bird-song. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Coloured etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1818.
  • A fiddler falls over in fright at a skeleton. Etching by J. Neagle after C. Edgeworth, 1801.
  • A young man is shouting at a man playing the trombone at 2.30 in the morning, for waking him and his family up during the night. Engraving by Robert Graves, 1834, after R.W. Buss.
  • An Indian snake charmer squatting down playing his pipe, with two cobras in a basket in front of him, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A man plays the fiddle at a tavern table as another sings and others listen. Engraving by M. Liart, c. 1783, after A. van Ostade.
  • The prophet Elisha, inspired by the music of a minstrel, tells the kings of Israel, Judah and Edom that their lands will be irrigated without the aid of rain or wind. Engraving after Jan van der Straet.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • The mystic marriage of Catherine of Alexandria and the infant Christ. Etching by C. Bouzonnet Stella after F. Lauri.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • Musurgia universalis sive ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • A shepherd boy piping to sheep, goats and cows which are grouped around him. Engraving by Nandet after P. J. Loutherbourg.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • A man's face with his brain revealed and wired to a guitar with video cassettes; an advertisement for an AIDS benefit rock video competition by the Landsforeningen Ungdomsringen. Colour lithograph by Leo Svendsen, ca. 1995.
  • A man sits drinking at a table and is entertained by a fiddler as a woman holds his music open. Etching by D. Deuchar, 18th century, after A. van Ostade.
  • Musurgia universalis sive ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • A man and woman stand talking together in the middle of the room as other couples amuse one another by playing the piano and singing. Wood engraving after George Du Maurier, ca. 1892 (?).
  • A male dwarf, playing the violin to a family in a rural setting. Etching by P.S. Lamborne after A. van Ostade.
  • Musurgia universalis sive ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Radha listening to Krishna's flute playing seated by a shoreline. Chromolithograph.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the female workroom. Wood engraving probably by F. Vizetelly after F. Palmer, 1860.
  • The Virgin in Heaven. Engraving.
  • A woman personifying music. Engraving by P. Savorelli and P. Fontana after G.F. Romanelli.
  • Musurgia universalis sive ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • A woman plays music to a stag; God condemns Adam and Eve to exile; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • People dancing the tarantella and playing music as an antidote to a tarantula bite. Etching.