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A blind hurdy gurdy player and his son and two dancing dogs. Coloured lithograph by White after E.J. Pigal.
Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798-1872.Reference: 16520i- Pictures
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A blind man plays the fiddle to a family audience. Colour engraving by J. Burnet after D. Wilkie, 1806.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: 6 January 1877Reference: 16584i- Books
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A new musical grammar, and dictionary: or, a general introduction to the whole art of musick. In four books. Teaching, I. The Rudiments of Tones, Diatonick, and Semitonick; according to the Gamut. - With Rules for Tuning the Voice, and Beating of Time; the Nature of Keys, and Transposition; and of all other Characters used in Musick. II. Containing such plain and easy Directions as are necessary for Tuning, and Playing on, the Organ, Harpsichord, Bass Viol, Violin, Hautboy, Flute, Bassoon, &c. - With Songs and Lessons in great Variety; in 2, 3, and 4 Parts. - With Rules for Tuning of Bells, and Pricking of Chime-Barrels, &c. And the Structure of an Organ considered, in all its curious Branches: And a Feeling Scale of Musick for such as are blind. III. The Theory of Sound, from its Natural Causes: Or, A Philosophical, and Mathematical Dissertation thereon; in a concise and easy Method, &c. Together with the Principles of Practical Musick: Or, the most Authentick Rules of Composition, either in 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 Musical Parts: Shewing the Allowed Passages of all Concords, and Discords; and the Contrivance of Fuge, or Canon, in great Variety. IV. The Musicians Historical, and Technical Dictionary; explicating above 550 of the most useful Terms that generally occur in Musick; as they are taken from the Greek, French, Latin, and Italian Writers. With an Account of Instruments, and their Inventors, &c. The Whole is extracted from the best Authors, both Ancient, and Modern; and methodically digested to every Capacity. - With a Preface prefactory; and a Table to the Whole. This Book the Grounds of Musick doth contain, The Organ, Hantboy, Viol, and Flute explain: How Bells are Tun'd; and how the Chimes do play; And cheerful Songs, to drive dull Cares away, &c The third edition, with large additions. By William Tans'ur, Senior, Musico-Theorico.
Tans'ur, William, 1699?-1783.Date: [1756]- Pictures
Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation}: (left to right) two men hitting their heads against each other; a man kneeling to hit his head against a rock; a man with burning herbs on his head; a standing man hitting his head with a rock. Engraving after J. Nieuhof.
Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.Date: [1768]Reference: 37972i- Pictures
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Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation: (left to right) a man hitting his head with a rock; a man with burning herbs on his head; a man with his head stuck in a block. Engraving after J. Nieuhof.
Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 37971i- Pictures
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Top: Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation, one (left) kneeling to hit his head against a rock, and the other (right) with burning herbs on his head; below, a monk being whipped as a punishment for promiscuity. Engraving by C. Du Bosc after B. Picart after J. Nieuhof.
Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.Date: 1730-1739Reference: 37983i- Archives and manuscripts
M0004134: Four ivory Netsuke, Japan
Date: January 1935Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/33/81Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Videos
Drugs live. 3/3, Cannabis on trial.
Date: 2015- Pictures
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Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
Date: [between 1778 and 1784?]Reference: 44754i- Audio
Disability : a new history. Freaks and entrepreneurs. 3/10.
Date: 2013- Pictures
King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, escorted by soldiers, arrive at a masked ball held to celebrate the birth of their son, the Dauphin. Etching by Jean-Michel Moreau the younger, 1782, after P.L. Moreau-Desproux.
Moreau-Desproux, Pierre Louis, 1727 or 1736-1793.Date: 1782Reference: 3223749i- Books
Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain / Oliver Sacks.
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.Date: 2007- Pictures
Chinese historical and mythological characters. Album of drawings by a Chinese artist.
Reference: 580456i