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  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Photograph.
  • An apothecary in his shop examines the throat of a young female singer, an apprentice takes notes and other patients wait their turn. Line engraving by F. Bartolozzi after P. Longhi.
  • A prisoner in Sing Sing Prison, New York, having water poured over him by a guard as a punishment, while restrained at the ankles and wrists: he dies. Wood engraving, 1869.
  • The face of Gail Gilmore, a black American opera singer representing an advertisement for a tribute concert for AIDS awareness on Saturday 28, January 1995 organised by AIDS-Aufklärung e.V. Colour lithograph.
  • The enraged musician: a street crowd with a ballad singer is creating such a noise that the musician in the window has to put his hands over his ears. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1741.
  • Two musicians play the violin and lute as a woman sings. Engraving after D. Maggiotto.
  • The enraged musician: a street crowd with a ballad singer is creating such a noise that the musician in the window has to put his hands over his ears. Engraving by J. June after W. Hogarth.
  • A singer of tales called Rinaldo, performing to an audience of men seated around him: he reads the story from a book and makes gestures with a stick. Coloured lithograph by Gatti & Dura after Gaet. Dura.
  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, with his wife King-Foo,and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Wood engraving.
  • A woman plays the harp and sings, but her husband sleeps. Colour process print, 1891, after Thomas Rowlandson.
  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, with his wife, King-Foo and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • History and bibliography of anatomic illustration / by Ludwig Choulant ; translated and annotated by Mortimer Frank ; further essays by Fielding H. Garrison, Mortimer Frank, Edward C. Streeter ; with a new historical essay by Charles Singer, and a bibliography of Mortimer Frank, by J. Christian Bay.
  • "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.
  • The black silhouette of a singer bearing the AIDS red ribbon and holding up a microphone in the air with silhouette musicians in the foreground; advertising an AIDS benefit concert at the Cathedral Esplanade in Lausanne on 14-15 June 1996 to support SID'Action. Colour lithograph.
  • Apollo and a woman play music near a fountain, while a winged nymph sings; representing music. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • A woman accompanies herself on the lute as she sings, the man next to her is grimacing as he listens. Coloured etching.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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..