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  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, with his wife, King-Foo and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • "When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing" the praises of Bird's custard powder / [Alfred Bird & Sons Ltd.].
  • Saint Cecilia: she plays the harp, while an angel sings. Engraving by J. Bouillard, 1804, after Dubois after P. Mignard, 1691.
  • A woman accompanies herself on the lute as she sings, the man next to her is grimacing as he listens. Coloured etching.
  • Apollo and a woman play music near a fountain, while a winged nymph sings; representing music. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • A man points to a sheet of music as he and four others sing. Etching attributed to J. de Saint-Igny, ca. 1630.
  • A young man sings and turns the pages of the music as a girl plays the piano. Colour wood engraving (?) after George Cruikshank.
  • 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.
  • A woman is playing the harp as she and her male companion sing together, representing a man and a woman in love. Etching by James Gillray.
  • In the company of his master's daughter Francis Goodchild sings attentively from a hymn book during a church service. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1796.
  • A man plays the fiddle at a tavern table as another sings and others listen. Engraving by J. Heudelot, late 18th century, after A. van Ostade.
  • A man with a wooden leg sings while he is accompanied by a blind man playing the flute and a dog performing on its hind legs. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Animals wearing human clothes play sounds and sing from a score open on a table, while others attending dance; represesenting musical soirées held by Teresa Cornelys. Mezzotint after E. van Heemskerck.
  • A young woman plays music as a man sings from a sheet, another woman listens and a child carries a glass on a tray. Engraving by A.H. Payne after Caspar Netscher.
  • A naked witch carried on the shoulders of a monster sings from a choirbook held with pincers by two grotesque bishops while two apelike swimmers look on. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A naked witch carried on the shoulders of a monster sings from a choirbook held with pincers by two grotesque bishops while two apelike swimmers look on. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Two men sing from a songbook they are both holding, while a younger man has fallen asleep at the table; a young woman looks on. Engraving by T.E. Nicholson after J.M. Wright.
  • Episodes in the nursery-rhyme "Sing a song of sixpence.": the king is served with a pie of blackbirds, the queen holds a honeycomb, and a maid has her nose pecked off by a blackbird. Colour process print after G.S..
  • A woman in a red dress with puffed sleeves sings beside a pianist representing an advertisement for a benefit concert entitled 'Artists against AIDS. The Big Aria' to support Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe at the Schubertsaal Wiener concert hall in Vienna on 24 October 1987. Colour lithograph.
  • Liberal and radical politicians as ballad singers (Thomas Wakley, Charles Buller, D. W. Harvey, Joseph Hume, Lord Brougham and J.A. Roebuck) sing a song sympathetic to Canadian rebels below the window of John Bull, who proposes to drench them with the contents of the house pail. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • A man sits on a stone looking miserable as he looks up at a broken heart above his head; another man sings with a microphone as a woman holding a handbag looks back; with diagrams on how AIDS is not contracted; an advertisement for safe sex by the Office of Federal Health and Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Birez [?].
  • Voice building and tone placing : showing a new method of relieving injured vocal cords by tone exercises / by H. Holrook Curtis.
  • Voice building and tone placing : showing a new method of relieving injured vocal cords by tone exercises / by H. Holrook Curtis.
  • Voice building and tone placing : showing a new method of relieving injured vocal cords by tone exercises / by H. Holrook Curtis.
  • A choir of grotesque singers read from a printed sheet held up at the corners. Etching attributed to J. de Saint-Igny, ca. 1630.
  • Voice building and tone placing : showing a new method of relieving injured vocal cords by tone exercises / by H. Holrook Curtis.
  • Voice building and tone placing : showing a new method of relieving injured vocal cords by tone exercises / by H. Holrook Curtis.
  • Voice building and tone placing : showing a new method of relieving injured vocal cords by tone exercises / by H. Holrook Curtis.
  • Grand & novel attraction : Miss Julia Pastrana, the nondescript : from the United States and Canada / Regent Gallery, 69, & 71, Quadrant, Regent Street.
  • A musical rehearsal for a Jewish religious service (?). Etching by E. Moyse, 1865.