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  • Four monkeys dressed as musicians giving a concert. Coloured engraving after D Teniers.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Reference
    39681i
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  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    [ca, 1840?]
    Reference
    20044i
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  • Sancho Panza (the squire of Don Quixote) , at a banquet, being starved for health reasons by his physician. Lithograph by C. Nanteuil after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.

    • Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
    Date
    1800-1899
    Reference
    22108i
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  • Four musicians at a performance: the violinist points with his bow at the sheet music as another man plays the theorbo, and a guitar is placed on the table. Etching.

    Reference
    33928i
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  • Patie Birnie, a fiddler. Wash drawing.

    Reference
    169i
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  • Indian kettle-drummers. Gouache drawing.

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    32429i
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  • African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.

    Reference
    21357i
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  • A pair of bearded musicians, in a temple. Photograph, ca.1900.

    • Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957
    Reference
    535972i
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  • An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animals bladder. Drypoint.

    Reference
    21055i
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  • Miss Julia Klumpke, playing the violin. Photograph.

    Reference
    562156i
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  • Jack Keiling, known as Blind Jack, played the flageolet through his nose. Mezzotint.

    Reference
    2097i
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  • A group of musicians; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by A. Bosse, c. 1650.

    • Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.
    Date
    1600-1699
    Reference
    26943i
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  • Indian musicians playing their instruments. Gouache drawing.

    Reference
    28530i
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  • A priest exorcist, with two men playing cymbals and drums. Gouache painting.

    Date
    [1815?]
    Reference
    728666i
    Part of
    Indian practitioners of trades, crafts, and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.
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  • A Bundela man and wife of south India. Gouache painting.

    Date
    [1815?]
    Reference
    728667i
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    Indian practitioners of trades, crafts, and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.
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  • Six portraits of eminent seventeenth century men. Engraving.

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    546768i
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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, 1763.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    June ye 25 1735 [i.e. 1763]
    Reference
    20040i
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  • An eye belonging to a musician. Drawing, c. 1794.

    • Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
    Date
    ca. 1794
    Reference
    30850i
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  • Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

    • Werner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich, 1808-1894.
    Date
    [1878]
    Reference
    25224i
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    Werner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich
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  • A man hangs from a pole wearing a ceremonial scarf and holding a bell below a group of musicians and a crowd of people in a market square in India. Coloured aquatint by T. Medland after C. Gold, ca. 1803.

    • Gold, Charles, -1842.
    Date
    1803?
    Reference
    640699i
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  • A woman plays guitar at a table surrounded by men; representing the five senses. Etching by J.C. Levasseur and F. Hubert, c. 1800, after A. Borel after Valentin de Boulogne.

    • Valentin, de Boulogne, 1591-1632.
    Reference
    27199i
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    Galerie du Palais Royal
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  • A musician. Drawing, c. 1789.

    • Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
    Date
    c. 1789
    Reference
    28793i
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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 after himself, 1735.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    25 June 1735
    Reference
    20042i
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  • Page 101: Guru Nanak attended by his musician and holy man. Gouache drawing.

    Reference
    27298i
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  • Strong men in music / by Algernon S. Rose.

    • Rose, Algernon S.
    Date
    1899
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