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Programme of evening concert given in aid of St. Dunstan's Hostel for soldiers and sailors blinded in the war... : by blind musicians attached to the National Institute for the Blind... and organised by Lady Pearson, D.B.E. : The Assembly Hall, Framlingham, Monday August 15th, 1921 / National Institute for the Blind.
Date: 1921- Ephemera
Programme of evening concert given in aid of St. Dunstan's Hostel for soldiers and sailors blinded in the war... : by blind musicians attached to the National Institute for the Blind... and organised by Lady Pearson, D.B.E. : Victoria Hall, Town Hall, Ealing, Monday January 31st, 1921 / National Institute for the Blind.
Date: 1921- Books
Programme of concert given by the blind musicians : organised by Lady Pearson, D.B.E.
Date: [1920]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0002695: Wall carving depicting blind musicians, Temple of Sakkara
Date: 01 January 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/22/74Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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A troupe of blind musicians and their dogs confronting a rival street musician and his dog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1828.
Baptiste, Sylvestre, 1791-1859.Date: 1828Reference: 16519i- Pictures
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John Stanley, a blind musician. Line engraving, 1784.
Date: 1 October 1784Reference: 1842i- Pictures
Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: two seated musicians. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19618i- Pictures
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A blind musician holding a uilleann pipe or pastoral bagpipe. Etching attributed to G. Grattan.
Grattan, George.Date: [between 1800 and 1809?]Reference: 16514i- Pictures
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A band of seven blinded soldiers playing the banjo. Photograph, ca. 1919.
Date: [1919?]Reference: 812125i- Pictures
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Jack Keiling, known as Blind Jack, played the flageolet through his nose. Mezzotint.
Reference: 2097i- Pictures
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John Keiling, known as Blind Jack, played the flageolet through his nose. Line engraving by R. Graves.
Reference: 2098i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0004146EA: Netsuke of a blind musician holding a shamisen / M0004146EB: Netsuke of masseur massaging left arm of a man
Date: 23 January 1935Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/33/93Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0004141EA: Netsuke of blind musician with Biwa strapped to his back / M0004141EB: Netsuke of a man receiving a massage on his right shoulder
Date: January 1935Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/33/88Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
A blind man plays the fiddle to a large family. Wood engraving by H. Vizetelly after David Wilkie.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 3140206i- Pictures
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A blind man plays the fiddle to a large family. Engraving by T. Nicholson after David Wilkie.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 34111iPart of: National Gallery of pictures by the great masters.- Pictures
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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.
Cruz, Manuel de la, 1750-1809.Date: 1777Reference: 29488i- Pictures
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Four blind men and a boy playing musical instruments and singing. Etching by C. Du Bosc after A. Watteau.
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 29501i- Pictures
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A blind fiddler walks with his dog. Etching by or after Rembrandt, 1631.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Date: 1631Reference: 16526i- Pictures
A blind bag-piper playing to a family inside a cottage. Etching by E. Goodall after F. Goodall, 1848.
Goodall, Frederick, 1822-1904.Date: [1848]Reference: 667110i- Pictures
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A young woman guiding a blind bag-piper over a bridge in Scotland. Stipple engraving by S.W. Reynolds, 1848, after F. Tayler.
Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889.Date: March 1848Reference: 673585i- Pictures
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A blind man plays the fiddle to a family audience; a child to the right imitates the fiddler. Line engraving by T. Nicholson after D. Wilkie.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Reference: 16374iPart of: National Gallery of pictures by the great masters.- Books
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Royal Society of Musicians. Under the patronage, and by command of their Majesties, And under the direction of The Earl of Exeter, Honorary President. The Earl of Sandwich, The Earl of Uxbridge, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart. and Sir Richard Jebb, Bart. Honorary Vice-Presidents. Will be performed, in Westminster-Abbey, The following selections of sacred music, from Handel's works. On Thursday, June 2d, 1785, Part I. Overture in Esther. Dettingen Te Deum. Part II. Second Hautboy Concerto. Song. Pious Orgies, (judas Macchaboeus.) Select Parts of the Funeral Anthem. Chorus. How excellent is thy Name, O Lord (saul) Part III. Anthem. O come let us sing unto the Lord. Fourth Hautboy Concerto. Coronation Anthem. My Heart is inditing. On Monday, June 6th, Part I. Overture in Joseph. Song. Total Eclipse, Chorus. O first created Beam, Jubilate. (samson) Part II. Fifth Grand Concerto. Song. He was Eyes to the Blind. Anthem. As pants the Hart. Chorus. The Lord shall reign, (israel in Egypt.) Part III. Fifth Hautboy Concerto. Song. Shall I in Mamre's fertile Plain, (joshua.) Chorus. For all these Mercies. Recitative. O clap your Hands together; and Song. O give Thanks. Chorus. Ye Sons of Israel, (joshua.) Coronation Anthem. Zadock the Priest. And on Wednesday, June the 8th, The Sacred Oratorio of The Messiah. The Band will be as numerous, and the Performances on the same Grand Scale as they were last Year, at the Commemoration of Handel. The Profits arising from the several Performances, will be applied to the Fund for Decayed Musicians, the Westminster Hospital, and St. George's Hospital. - Tickets, at One Guinea for each of the Performances, will be delivered on Monday, the 2d, Wednesday the 4th, and Friday the 6th of May, at the St. Alban's-Tavern, St. Alban's-Street, Pall-Mall; and will continue to be delivered, at the same Place, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of every Week, 'till the Time of Performance, from Ten in the Morning, to Six in the Evening. It is requested, that those who mean to honor this Celebrity with their Attendance, will be as early in their Application for Tickets, as they conveniently can, as it is intended to stop the Delivery of Tickets, when a sufficient Number has been disposed of, to fill the Places allotted for the Company; for it is proposed, to prevent Confusion, that this Year there shall be no Distinction of Places between Subscribers and Non-Subscribers.
Royal Society of Musicians (Great Britain)Date: [1785]- Pictures
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A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.
Geikie, Walter, 1795-1837.Reference: 16516i- Pictures
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A blind musician plays the koto to a gathering of women dressed in ornate kimonos. Coloured woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1849/1852.
Utagawa, Kuniyoshi, 1798-1861.Date: 1849/1852 (?)]Reference: 565403i- Pictures
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A blind musician carrying a shamisen (?) and walking with the aid of a cane. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
Zhou, Pei Qun, active approximately 1890.Date: 1890Reference: 571515i