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  • Souvenir diploma : the city of Bradford Cartwright Memorial Hall inaugural exhibition May to October 1904 : music, industries, art.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Indian musicians and singers. Gouache drawing.
  • Two Hindu musicians and a highly decorated cow with the symbol of Hanuman painted on its forehead. Gouache drawing.
  • A young woman posing naked in a photographic studio, standing with her back to the camera, holding on to a harp. Stereo photograph, ca.1900.
  • A itinerant bag-pipe player and his son, resting at the side of the road. Coloured lithograph, c.1850 (?).
  • The birth of Christ among ruins. Engraving by J. Sadeler after Polidoro da Caravaggio.
  • Indian musicians with their instruments. Gouache drawing.
  • Apollo descending to kill the Python, surrounded by men and women of Delphi; representing the power of music to affect the human mind. Etching by Agostino Carracci after A. Boscoli after B. Buontalenti.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Saint Cecilia. Line engraving by F. Bartolozzi after R. Smirke.
  • Science: the engraved titlepage to the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert. Engraving by B.L. Prevost, 1772, after C.N. Cochin, the younger, 1765.
  • Cabinet-making: a tapestry frame (top), and a music-stand (below). Wood engraving.
  • Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners filing into the entrance to the west Dining Hall, right, beating the tattoo at sunset. Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.
  • A man sleeps between Roger Bacon (?) and a musician: a brass head proclaims time present and the past. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • Angels blow trumpets and fire descends upon the earth. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • Astronomy: a muse shows a treatise on the stars to a ruler, surrounded by putti with attributes of the arts and sciences, in the background an observatory [Greenwich?]. Engraving.
  • Apollo and a woman play music near a fountain, while a winged nymph sings; representing music. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • A woman representing Necessity, seated on a throne supported by the Fates, is flanked by the planets and by Sirens; representing the Harmony of Spheres. Etching by Agostino Carracci after A. Boscoli after B. Buontalenti.
  • A young woman plays the piano while a young man leans and listens. Etching by Swain after M.E. Edwards.
  • A woman posing naked in a photographic studio, holding aloft a tambourine, standing in front of a painted backdrop. Photograph, c.1900.
  • A woman in platform laced boots and a skimpy leotard raises her hands above her head appearing to hold the logo 'Big spender'; an advertisement for a charity music event presented by Big Spender and United Parties against AIDS on 4 December 1994 at the Metropol [Berlin[. Colour lithograph by Rene Habermacher and Blackline.
  • Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
  • Saint Cecilia with Saint Paul the Apostle, Saint John the Evangelist, a bishop and Saint Mary Magdalene. Engraving by F. Rosaspina, 1830, after himself after Raphael.
  • A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.
  • People playing ancient musical instruments. Etching.
  • Crowds at Greenwich Park, dancing, watching side shows, etc. Engraving by A. H. Payne after A. Wray.
  • The coronation of the Virgin in Heaven. Etching by C. Schut.
  • The legs of a woman dancing on a swirling green background with the words 'Red Hot + Rio The Party'; an advertisement for a Brazilian music event on 24th November 1996 at BKA-Zelt, a venue in Berlin; organised by Berliner AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph.
  • Saint Cecilia. Engraving by H. Robinson after A. Celesti.