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  • Michel Boai, a "chin performer" (on the guitar?), performing with his associates, his wife playing the guitar and M. Engels playing the violin. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1830.
  • A seated woman, playing a guitar, wearing a fringed shawl. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A Spanish barber playing the guitar. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after Hippolyte Lecomte.
  • Two sailors (?) on board ship: one in drag is playing a guitar. Photographic postcard, 1907.
  • Two sailors (?) on board ship: one in drag is playing a guitar. Photographic postcard, 1907.
  • Constantinople: a girl playing the tehegour (guitar). Engraving by G. Scotin the elder, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.
  • A Spanish barber playing a guitar. Engraving by D. Juan de la Cruz after D. Manuel de la Cruz.
  • A barber wearing a long cloak is playing the guitar. Coloured engraving by Juan de la Cruz after Manuel de la Cruz.
  • A male frog, playing a guitar, serenading a female seated on a mushroom. Photograph by J.P. Soule, 1876, after a drawing.
  • A Mexican woman in national costume dancing and playing the castanettes to the guitar music played by a seated musician. Gouache drawing.
  • A Spanish couple are dancing the boleras accompanied by a man playing the guitar. Coloured aquatint by J. Clark after Revd. William Bradford.
  • A Mexican man in national costume dancing and playing the castanettes to the guitar music played by a seated musician behind him. Gouache.
  • A blind singer wearing a long cloak is playing the guitar. Etching by Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla after Manuel de la Cruz.
  • A man holding a guitar is leaning against a wall, two children are lying asleep on the ground beside him. Etching by J.J. Martínez Espinosa.
  • Rome: a man leans on a stone pillar watching and listening as one girl plays the tambourine and another plays the guitar. Lithograph by T. Allom.
  • A young man stands on a barrel to reach the girl at the window and to hand her flowers and serenade her with his guitar. Etching.
  • A guitar player in a dingy tavern with a woman holding a song-sheet and a man with glass by his side. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
  • The carnival in Rome (?): an old man is playing the guitar and young women are gathered around a sedan chair carrying a man. Wood engraving after L. Alvarez Catalá.
  • Four musicians at a performance: the violinist points with his bow at the sheet music as another man plays the theorbo, and a guitar is placed on the table. Etching.
  • A man's face with his brain revealed and wired to a guitar with video cassettes; an advertisement for an AIDS benefit rock video competition by the Landsforeningen Ungdomsringen. Colour lithograph by Leo Svendsen, ca. 1995.
  • A man playing the guitar to his companion at his feet explaining how sharing needles meant they both contracted AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the NACO in collaboration with WHO. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A young man who has been serenading a young woman with a guitar below her window falls into a water butt when the cover breaks; she comes to the window, drawn by the commotion. Aquatint., 18--.
  • Above, a family of street musicians playing the guitar, the triangle and the fiddle; below, five men in military uniforms at table, with a servant bringing in a roast pig. Etching by Ferdinand, King of Portugal, 1844.
  • A woman and a boy are looking at prints with the aid of a lens and mirror; an antique urn and a guitar in the background. Coloured stipple print by J.F. Cazenave after L.L. Boilly, ca. 1793.
  • A jester with a small guitar slung over his shoulder offers cherries to a bird on his hand as another bird takes the fruit from the plate on the floor, and a chained monkey looks on. Engraving by E. Mohn after A. Lambron.
  • A woman in a black and white dress singing next to a microphone with a man as their band members play the drums and guitar in the background; an advertisement for support for those with AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by R. Warzecha, M. Jahreiss and D. Pusch.
  • Four musicians performing: two standing men play guitars, two seated men play zithers. Lithograph.
  • An Indian man is sitting on a carpet playing the sitar; below, the sitar and a musical scale. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • An Indian man is sitting on a carpet playing the sitar; below, the sitar and a musical scale. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • A band of seven blinded soldiers playing the banjo. Photograph, ca. 1919.