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  • A choir of six grotesque people singing from a songbook open on a shelf. Etching attributed to J. de Saint-Igny, ca. 1630.
  • An Arabic (?) man singing from a songbook; African or Indian men surveying the land; westerners sowing seed and reaping; smiths hammering iron. Engraving.
  • A large man carrying a tankard and a wooden half-barrel is singing, representing Jean Ramponneau and his drinking establishment in Paris, Engraving, 1760.
  • Left, a choir singing mass for a deceased placed before them in a coffin; right, monks ringing bells in a belfry. Pen and ink drawing.
  • The Virgin suckling the Christ Child sitting in the believer's heart, accompanied by two angels singing and playing a string instrument. Engraving by A. Wierix.
  • A family with a young child by an open window singing together with the woman playing an instrument. Engraving by W.H. Pyne after Philip Vandyke.
  • [Leaflet (1827?) advertising appearances by "Two Chinese ladies" in elaborate national costume, singing and playing traditional Chinese instruments in the Grand Saloon at 94 Pall Mall, London].
  • A priest in a cassock is singing from a large book propped up in front of him and in front of those who are accompanying him. Coloured engraving.
  • A woman holding a songbook (left) and a man holding a glass (right) are singing to the accompaniment of a man playing the violin. Etching after A. van Ostade.
  • Figures with animal heads are playing musical instruments and singing from a book placed on a table in the middle of the room. Etching by Toms after E. Heemskerck.
  • A group of people gather and listen to a man sitting on a tiger skin singing religious songs (?) accompanied by four musicians. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A cardinal singing a lullaby to a lion; representing an attempt by France to maintain the neutrality of the Netherlands in the War of Jenkins' Ear. Engraving after Bernetto, 1740.
  • A family group of five singing around a table to the accompaniment of the violinist who is the originator of the image. Line engraving by J.G. Wille after G. Schalken.
  • A man wearing spectacles and a feathered hat is singing from the songsheet he is holding: two men join in, while two others listen. Etching attributed to J. de Saint-Igny, ca. 1630.
  • Four skeletons with musical instruments, seated in various positions: one is singing, another holds a flute, while two others are shown playing the violin and cello. Etching by Lavalée after J. Gamelin, 1778.
  • A man wearing spectacles is singing from the songbook he is holding as three others join in and a fourth man keeps his mouth shut. Etching attributed to J. de Saint-Igny, ca. 1630.
  • A man and woman stand talking together in the middle of the room as other couples amuse one another by playing the piano and singing. Wood engraving after George Du Maurier, ca. 1892 (?).
  • A concert: one man is playing a stringed instrument, another a small pipe and a third is singing and holding a glass of wine. Engraving by Thomas Chambars after E. Edwards after Valentin de Boulogne.
  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • Above, Lo Xuegu(?), a Chinese painter, shown seated in front of his artist's materials, playing a lute-like instrument and singing, while his dog dances; below, an attempt to photograph a Niō (Buddhist diety), who is watched with amusement by a fellow Niō. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, ca. 1870.
  • 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.
  • A noisy tenant and three of his friends, having stayed up singing until the early hours of the morning, go to the house of an elderly neighbour and disturb his sleep to ask him for glass of water and the loan of a shilling for a cab. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • The epitome of the art of husbandry. Comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... To which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit-trees, and improving of an orchard: with directions for taking, ordering, teaching, and curing of singing birds, and other useful addition / By J.B. Gent.
  • The epitome of the art of husbandry. Comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... To which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit-trees, and improving of an orchard: with directions for taking, ordering, teaching, and curing of singing birds, and other useful addition / By J.B. Gent.
  • Visualising the human breath ("Sing"), Artwork
  • 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.
  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Photograph.
  • Two musicians play the violin and lute as a woman sings. Engraving after D. Maggiotto.
  • 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.