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  • As a girl plays the piano and a boy plays the flute other couples dance to the music. Engraving, ca. 1830.
  • Krishna plays his flute to the gopis while a man watches from the woods. Chromolithograph.
  • A female snake charmer plays the flute to rouse the snake. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A Breton wedding: village people in costume dance in a circle under trees as musicians play the bagpipes and flute. Lithograph by H. Lalaisse after himself.
  • The adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ; a shepherd-boy plays a flute. Stipple engraving by J.B. Michel, 1780, after G. Farington after C. Cignani.
  • Krsna enchants the natural and human worlds with his flute. Standing in the tribhangi or 'three bends' posture, Krsna plays the flute as enchanted gopis, cattle, and birds look on. A clump of trees act as a sheltering umbrella, the symbol of gods and kings in Indic iconography.
  • Krsna enchants the natural and human worlds with his flute. Standing in the tribhangi or 'three bends' posture, Krsna plays the flute as enchanted gopis, cattle, and birds look on. A clump of trees act as a sheltering umbrella, the symbol of gods and kings in Indic iconography.
  • Taiyota, a boy from Otaheite (Tahiti), playing the nose-flute. Etching by R.B. Godfrey, 1773, after S. Parkinson.
  • Oliver Goldsmith, as a medical student in Europe, supports himself by playing the flute. Engraving by W. Greatbach after E.M. Ward.
  • A Japanese lady flautist standing with a girl among small pine trees. Watercolour.
  • A large man carrying a tankard and a wooden half-barrel is singing, representing Jean Ramponneau and his drinking establishment in Paris, Engraving, 1760.
  • Daoyin exercises: The Intercourse of Dragon and Tiger, Pose 1
  • An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor, drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq.
  • Panama: a Choco Indian medicine man with musicians during a ceremony to heal a sick boy lying beneath a shelter bearing symbols. Photograph of a process print, ca. 1920 (?).
  • A dancing woman with four male musicians of south India. Gouache painting.
  • Musicians playing at a Polterabend or eve-of-wedding party. Coloured lithograph.
  • Linqing, China: a crowd gathered around a stand to watch a puppet show with music. Engraving by G. Paterson after T. Allom.
  • A man with influenza, taken in hand by a doctor, surrounded by dancing politicians. Wood engraving by Pépin (E. Guillaumin), 1889.
  • Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Engraving after M. Buchinger, 1724.