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  • India (?): musicians, with drums, in traditional dress. Photograph, 1880/1900 (?).
  • Francis Goodchild, taking tea with his new wife, pays a drummer representing a group of serenading musicians, as was the custom, from his City house close to the Monument. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth.
  • A musician playing a dholka (folk drum). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A musician playing the dholak (double sided drum). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A musician playing a tabla (a pair of drums). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A musician from Lucknow playing the dholak (double-sided drum). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Four Sudanese musicians playing drums and wind instruments. Wood engraving by H.T. Hildibrand after O. Mathieu after G. Schweinfurth.
  • Musicians at Vauxhall Gardens playing a variety of instruments including, a tambourine, drum and cymbals. Etching by J. Lee after E. Burney.
  • An acrobat climbing a pole held by another man while a musician drums out a beat. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A musician with a nagra, a type of drum played with sticks, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Musician playing the dump, a drum which is held vertically and struck with the fingers, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Musician with a percussion instrument made of two drums of different sizes joined together, and played with a drumstick, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Musician with a d'hauk, a large drum carried over the shoulder and decorated with feathers, played at marriages and religious occasions, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • A musician with a d'hole, a drum played at one end with a stick, and at the other with the hand, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • India: a drummer with an exotic bird. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Indian singers and musicians. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian kettle-drummers. Gouache drawing.
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • Composite heads: a florist, a writer, a musician and a barber made of their respective instruments. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1800.
  • Composite heads: a florist, a writer, a musician and a barber made of their respective instruments. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1800.
  • Linqing, China: a crowd gathered around a stand to watch a puppet show with music. Engraving by G. Paterson after T. Allom.
  • Mandala with the eight-handed Uṣṇīṣavijayā as a Buddhist deity of long life. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.