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  • A priest exorcist, with two men playing cymbals and drums. Gouache painting.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • A dancing woman with four male musicians of south India. Gouache painting.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • A bath-house containing six men and an onlooker, perhaps an allegory of the four humours and five senses. Photolithograph after A. Dürer, c. 1496.
  • Johnny Ray. Photographic postcard, 195-.
  • Page 32: a dancing girl with musicians performing. Watercolour drawing.
  • Liberace, wearing red trousers. Colour photographic postcard after A. Leibowitz, 1981.
  • A gouty man drinking wine and playing the cello; the pain is represented by a devil burning his knee. Etching, 1785, after H.W. Bunbury.
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1735.
  • Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.
  • A bustling country fair full of stalls of people selling their wares. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1788, after A. Ostade.
  • Head of woman showing musical ability, according to phrenological classification. Drawing, c. 1900.
  • Four monkeys dressed as musicians giving a concert. Coloured engraving after D Teniers.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage with the aid of three musicians to an audience in the ruins of a temple. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu, 1773.
  • An old man in ragged clothes and a feathery fur cap playing the hurdy gurdy. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • Antiquities: musicians and the suffering Job painted on the back of a door; Roman coins; a Roman inscribed stone; and the plant Sweet gale. Engraving, 1786.
  • A one-legged hurdy gurdy player dressed in rags with his companion, an old woman dressed in rags reading from a song sheet. Engraving with etching by J. Matham after Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne.
  • A blind fiddler walks with his dog. Etching by or after Rembrandt, 1631.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • Nannette Stocker and John Hauptman, dwarf musicians exhibiting together in London. Stipple engraving, 1815.
  • John Keiling, known as Blind Jack, played the flageolet through his nose. Line engraving by R. Graves.
  • A woman sitting at an organ; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving, 16--.
  • Six portraits of eminent seventeenth century men. Engraving.
  • Louis Vernassier in drag poses with a harp. Process print, 1906.
  • The enraged musician: a street crowd with a ballad singer is creating such a noise that the musician in the window has to put his hands over his ears. Engraving by J. June after W. Hogarth.
  • Sancho Panza (the squire of Don Quixote) , at a banquet, being starved for health reasons by his physician. Lithograph by C. Nanteuil after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.
  • Westerners at Yokohama, Japan, enjoying a lavish tea ceremony as a cellist plays to them. Coloured woodcut by Chikahisa, c. 1865, after Yoshikazu.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • A Muslim dancing woman with two male musicians of south India. Gouache painting.