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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 33.4 x 44.4 cm

Cattle and sheep rest on the hillside as a woman milks a goat and gives the child a drink; a herder plays the bagpipes. Etching after N. Berchem.

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 15 x 13 cm

A man accompanied by a child is playing the bagpipes. Coloured lithograph, 18--.

Mary is thrice crowned; she wears an elaborate dress. The shepherd on the right appears to be carrying a bagpipe of some sort

1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 36.5 x 26.8 cm

The birth of Christ; in the background, shepherds are hailed by an angel. Engraving.

1 print : etching ; platemark 19.4 x 26.5 cm

Bagpipes, with the score of the song "O ma tendre musette". Etching by L. Gaucherel after Ph. Rousseau.

The two shepherds on the right doff their hats; the other carries a bagpipe. The cherubs above carry a scroll. The annunciation to the shepherds happens in the distance, top-right

1 print : aquatint, with etching ; image 38.1 x 27.3 cm

Mary, Joseph, the ass and the ox genuflect before the infant Jesus; shepherds arrive behind. Aquatint with etching by C.M. Metz after Titian.

A itinerant bag-pipe player and his son, resting at the side of the road. Coloured lithograph, c.1850 (?).

One of the dogs howls in emulation of the bagpipes

1 print : engraving ; image 24 x 18.7 x 25.1 cm

A Scottish piper playing the bagpipes to his five dogs. Engraving by H. Beckwith after E. H. Landseer.

A man is holding a set of bagpipes. Aquatint.

The thistle represents the Scottish Order of the Thistle. Dancing a Scottish reel round it are (left) the Earl of Bute; (centre) Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, holding a quizzing glass; and (right) William Murray, Lord chief justice and subsequently 1st Earl of Mansfield, holding the "Quebec Bill" (which had become the Quebec Act in June 1774)

1 print : engraving ; platemark 17.9 x 12 cm

Three noblemen dance round a tall thistle as the devil plays the bagpipes; representing Scottish influence on the British policy towards American independence. Engraving, 1775.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 24.1 x 34.1 cm

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Cattle and sheep rest on the hillside as a woman milks a goat and gives the child a drink; a herder plays the bagpipes. Etching after N. Berchem.

A man accompanied by a child is playing the bagpipes. Coloured lithograph, 18--.

The birth of Christ; in the background, shepherds are hailed by an angel. Engraving.

Bagpipes, with the score of the song "O ma tendre musette". Etching by L. Gaucherel after Ph. Rousseau.

Mary, Joseph, the ass and the ox genuflect before the infant Jesus; shepherds arrive behind. Aquatint with etching by C.M. Metz after Titian.

A itinerant bag-pipe player and his son, resting at the side of the road. Coloured lithograph, c.1850 (?).

A Scottish piper playing the bagpipes to his five dogs. Engraving by H. Beckwith after E. H. Landseer.

A man is holding a set of bagpipes. Aquatint.

Three noblemen dance round a tall thistle as the devil plays the bagpipes; representing Scottish influence on the British policy towards American independence. Engraving, 1775.

A choir of cats sitting on a table singing while a monkey plays a pipe. Engraving by C. Bol after D. Teniers.

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Cattle and sheep rest on the hillside as a woman milks a goat and gives the child a drink; a herder plays the bagpipes. Etching after N. Berchem.

A man accompanied by a child is playing the bagpipes. Coloured lithograph, 18--.

The birth of Christ; in the background, shepherds are hailed by an angel. Engraving.

Bagpipes, with the score of the song "O ma tendre musette". Etching by L. Gaucherel after Ph. Rousseau.

Mary, Joseph, the ass and the ox genuflect before the infant Jesus; shepherds arrive behind. Aquatint with etching by C.M. Metz after Titian.

A itinerant bag-pipe player and his son, resting at the side of the road. Coloured lithograph, c.1850 (?).

A Scottish piper playing the bagpipes to his five dogs. Engraving by H. Beckwith after E. H. Landseer.

A man is holding a set of bagpipes. Aquatint.

Three noblemen dance round a tall thistle as the devil plays the bagpipes; representing Scottish influence on the British policy towards American independence. Engraving, 1775.

A choir of cats sitting on a table singing while a monkey plays a pipe. Engraving by C. Bol after D. Teniers.

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