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  • Ear trumpet, 19th century
  • The fifth trumpet is sounded. Etching by Ciro Tipaldi.
  • A woman shouting into a man's ear-trumpet. Wood engraving.
  • A Victorian ear trumpet swathed in black silk and lace mouning
  • A Victorian ear trumpet swathed in black silk and lace mouning
  • A musician playing a trumpet (?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The Palais Cardinal, above which Fame is blowing her trumpet. Etching by I. Silvestre.
  • A variety of shells, including limpets, turbines and trumpet-shells. Etching by I. Taylor.
  • The Palais Cardinal, above which Fame is blowing her trumpet. Etching by I. Silvestre.
  • A man holding a trumpet, with flowers, celebrating Saint Cecilia's day. Coloured photographic postcard, 1931.
  • A man holding a trumpet, with flowers, celebrating Saint Cecilia's day. Coloured photographic postcard, 1931.
  • A man with puffed up cheeks blowing a trumpet loudly. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A man with puffed up cheeks blowing a trumpet loudly. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A collapsible Victorian ear trumpet made of tin made by Atkinson, Union Court, Holborn, London
  • A collapsible Victorian ear trumpet made of tin made by Atkinson, Union Court, Holborn, London
  • A collapsible Victorian ear trumpet made of tin made by Atkinson, Union Court, Holborn, London
  • An Indian musician playing a long, inverted 's' shaped trumpet. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Man playing the baunk, a trumpet-like instrument, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • A hermit (St. Jerome?) reclining by a rock in a landscape with an angel blowing a trumpet above. Engraving.
  • A man attempting to alert a deaf farmer using an ear trumpet as to the plight of his horses and cart. Coloured etching.
  • Fame blows her trumpet: below, a man and his dog ride on a sleigh drawn by giant lobsters or crayfish. Woodcut by J. Amman, 1579.
  • Two Indian men: (left) blowing a trumpet-like instrument and (right) an armless man tying a turban on his head with his feet. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Music being played to a lady, while above an angel blows a trumpet into Jerome's ear; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Music being played to a lady, while above an angel blows a trumpet into Jerome's ear; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor sitting on a donkey with his boxes of medicines, a monkey sits on his shoulder and a boy in a fool's costume blows a trumpet. Watercolour by M. Calisch.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor sitting on a donkey with his boxes of medicines, a monkey sits on his shoulder and a boy in a fool's costume blows a trumpet. Watercolour by M. Calisch.
  • A seated woman personifying history and a man representing time gesturing towards the socle of a pair of columns decorated with portrait ovals; above, Fame holds her trumpet. Engraving by C. Duflos le père, 1725, after J. Desmarets.
  • A country fair: itinerant entertainers act on a stage, women and children look at a peep show, others dance to music provided by a man playing a hurdy-gurdy and boy playing a small trumpet. Engraving by C.N. Cochin the younger, 1740, after F. Boucher.
  • A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving by F. van der Steen after N. van Hoey after Michelangelo.
  • Dental prosthetics and a variety of ear trumpets