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Musician with a tamboura, used for supplying a drone, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31204iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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An organ-grinder is carrying a very large organ down the street as he passes a fellow musician with a much smaller instrument and a monkey; representing evolution by natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Reference: 34162i- Pictures
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Billy Waters, a one-legged busker. Coloured engraving by T.L. Busby.
Busby, Thomas Lord.Reference: 1938i- Books
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Augusta triumphans: or, the way to make London the most flourishing city in the universe. First, by establishing an university where Gentlemen may have Academical Education under the Eye of their Friends. II. To prevent much Murder, &c. by an Hospital for Foundlings. III. By suppressing pretended Mad-Houses, where many of the fair Sex are unjustly confin'd, while their Husbands keep Mistresses, &c. and many Widows are lock'd up for the Sake of their Jointure. IV. To save our Youth from Destruction, by clearing the Streets of impudent Strumpets, Suppressing Gaming-Tables, and Sunday Debauches. V. To avoid the expensive Importation of Foreign Musicians, by forming an Academy of our own. VI. To save our lower Class of People from utter Ruin, and render them useful, by preventing the immoderate Use of Geneva: With a frank Explosion of many other common Abuses, and incontestable Rules for Amendment. Concluding with an effectual method to prevent street robberies; and a letter to Coll. Robinson, on account of the orphan's tax.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1728]- Pictures
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A musician with a doyra, a percussion instrument resembling a tambourine, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31370iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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A musician with a nagra, a type of drum played with sticks, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31307iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Musician playing the dump, a drum which is held vertically and struck with the fingers, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31348iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Musician playing a jultrung, an instrument composed of china cups that are struck with sticks, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31143iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Books
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The merry musician; or, a cure for the spleen: being a collection of the most diverting songs and pleasant ballads, set to musick; adapted to every Taste and Humour. Together with a curious Compound of State Pills, to allay the Malady of Male-Contents. Part I.
Date: 1716-[33?]- Pictures
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Musician with instrument made from pumpkin shells joined by a wire and played with a bow, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31209iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Books
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The trial of the Right Hon. Ann, Countess of Cork and Orrery, at the Consistory Court of Doctors Commons, upon a libel, charging her with committing the crime of adultery, and violating her marriage vow. A trial of the most extraordinary nature. The principal Witnesses, &c. being John Charles Newby, of the Hay Market Theatre, Musician; Elizabeth Cross, House-Keeper to Lady Cork; Ann Newman, Lady's Woman to Lady Cork; Alexander Rice, Box-Keeper to the Hay Market Theatre; Nathaniel Vick, Footman to Lady Cork; the Rev. Dr. Eyre; John Colledge, Lord Cork's Gentleman; Susannah Jones; Thomas Sutliff; James Durham; Sophia Van Ryne, spinster; Robert Brown; Martha Brown; George Bulkley, Musician, at the Hay Market Theatre; William Jones; Thomas Gray; Elizabeth Brown; Ann Lambert, Servant to Lady Cork, &c. Taken in short-hand, by a civilian.
Corke, Edmund Boyle, Earl of, 1742-1798.Date: 1784- Pictures
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An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1735.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1735Reference: 20045i- Pictures
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Musician with a percussion instrument made of two drums of different sizes joined together, and played with a drumstick, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31372iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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A musician with a d'hole, a drum played at one end with a stick, and at the other with the hand, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31373iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Musician with a d'hauk, a large drum carried over the shoulder and decorated with feathers, played at marriages and religious occasions, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31269iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Boer War: the funeral procession for a military nurse, with soldiers pulling the funeral cart. Halftone, c. 1900, after W. S. Gillard.
Gillard, W. S., active 1900.Date: 1900Reference: 23697i- Pictures
Indian trades and occupations. 21 watercolours.
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Charles Knyvett. Stipple by J. Thomson after A. Wivell, 1821.
Wivell, Abraham, 1786-1849.Date: 1821Reference: 2064951i- Pictures
The amphitheatre, Verona, called the Arena. Engraving by D. Valesi, 1744, after A. Cristofali.
Cristofali, Adriano, 1718-1788.Date: [1744]Reference: 2924468i- Books
Ruhuman : the typewriter art of Keith Armstrong / edited by Barrie Tullett & Tom Gill.
Tullett, Barrie, 1964-Date: 2022- Archives and manuscripts
Frank Dickinson (1906-1978)
Dickinson, Frank (1906-1978)Date: 1930s-2001Reference: PP/FDN- Pictures
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A notice advertising himself by Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Etching, 1837, in facsimile of a printed notice, 1716.
Buchinger, Matthias, 1674-approximately 1732.Date: 1837Reference: 201i- Archives and manuscripts
Broman, Allan (1861-1947)
Broman, Allan, 1861-1947.Date: 1885-1911Reference: GC/6- Archives and manuscripts
Myers, Charles Samuel (1873-1946)
Myers, Dr Charles Samuel (1873-1946)Date: 1902-1991Reference: PSY/MYE- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Wellcome Trust; 1936-Date: 1910-2022Reference: WT