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A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.

Reference

44066i

African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.

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21357i

Aeolus, at the request of Juno, opens a door in a mountainside, releasing the winds that will wreck the fleet of Aeneas; representing the element air. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1718, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.

Date

1718

Reference

23945i

P. Gasparis Schotti Mechanica hydraulico-pnevmatica : qua præterquàm quòd aquei elementi natura, proprietas, vis motrix, atque occultus cum aëre conflictus, à primis, fundamentis demonstratur; omnis quoque generis experimenta hydraulico-pnevmatica recluduntur; & absoluta machinarum aquâ & aëre animandrarum ratio ac methodus præscribitur. Opus bipartitum ... Accessit experimentum novum Magdeburgicum, quo vacuum alij stabilire, alij evertere conantur.

Date

1657

A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.

Date

c. 1610

Reference

17505i

The modern musick-master or, the universal musician, containing, I. An introduction to singing, ... VI. The harpsichord illustrated & improv'd; ... In which is included a large collection of airs, and lessons, adapted to the several instruments, extracted from the works of Mr. Handel, Bononcini, Albinoni, and other eminent masters. With a brief history of musick, ... To which is added, a musical dictionary, ... Curiously adorn'd with cuts representing the manner of performing on every instrument. Finely engrav'd on above 320 plates.

Date

1731

Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.

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26183i

A woman playing the barrel-organ; representing the sense of hearing. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.

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27104i

A group of five beggars with different disabilities. Wood engraving.

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44087i

An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animals bladder. Drypoint.

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21055i

A group of musicians; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by A. Bosse, c. 1650.

Date

1600-1699

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26943i

Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.

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28538i

A woman playing a lute; representing the sense of hearing. Mezzotint by A. van Haecken after J. Amigoni.

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26933i

A seething mass of people driven by a multitude of different wills; representing the levelling of life by death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1690.

Date

1690

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17931i

Apollo, god of literature, plays his harp; a town goes about its rituals. Engraving by J. Sadeler after J. van der Straet, 1594.

Date

1594

Reference

26106i

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Schema seu speculum principium

Jephthah's daughter contemplating her virginity and her imminent death, surrounded by woeful attendants with musical instruments. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1846, after H. O'Neil.

Date

1846

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20812i

A dancing couple from the Pujari caste. Gouache drawing.

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28675i

A badly wounded soldier being carried off the battlefield on a makeshift stretcher made of bayonets. Coloured aquatint.

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20088i

A bedridden sick young woman being examined by a doctor, accompanied by her anxious parents. Engraving by F. Engleheart, 1838, after Sir D. Wilkie.

Date

[1838]

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22198i

The orgies and wild dances of the ancient Romans. Engraving.

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33971i

A one-legged hurdy gurdy player dressed in rags with his companion, an old woman dressed in rags reading from a song sheet. Engraving with etching by J. Matham after Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne.

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43832i

An arrangement of different castes including snake charmer, brick-layer, basket-maker, potter and wives. Gouache drawing.

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28438i

A witch. Etching by G. Petrini after D. Teniers.

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37840i

A female figure playing a stringed instrument; representing music. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.

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25912i

Cupid (Love) with arrows sits next to items representing arts and sciences. Etching by H. Winstanley, 17--, after F. Snyders and A. van Dyck.

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26099i