49 results filtered with: Musical instruments
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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.
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African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.
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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.
Boulogne, Louis, 1654-1733.Date: 1718Reference: 23945i- Books
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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.
Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666.Date: 1657- Pictures
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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.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.Date: c. 1610Reference: 17505i- Pictures
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Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.
Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714.Reference: 26183i- Pictures
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A woman playing the barrel-organ; representing the sense of hearing. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
Wille, Pierre Alexandre, 1748-1821.Reference: 27104i- Pictures
A group of five beggars with different disabilities. Wood engraving.
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An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animal's bladder. Drypoint by L. Flameng.
Flameng, Léopold, 1831-1911.Reference: 21055i- Pictures
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A group of musicians; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by A. Bosse, c. 1650.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26943i- Pictures
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An albino woman of African descent, with white instead of black skin. Engraving by Schmitz after J. de Sève.
Sève, Jacques de, active 1742-1788.Reference: 2919i- Pictures
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Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.
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A woman playing a lute; representing the sense of hearing. Mezzotint by A. van Haecken after J. Amigoni.
Amigoni, Jacopo, 1682-1752.Reference: 26933i- Pictures
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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.
Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718.Date: 1690Reference: 17931i- Pictures
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Apollo, god of literature, plays his harp; a town goes about its rituals. Engraving by J. Sadeler after J. van der Straet, 1594.
Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.Date: 1594Reference: 26106iPart of: Schema seu speculum principium- Pictures
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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.
O'Neil, Henry, 1817-1880.Date: 1846Reference: 20812i- Pictures
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A dancing couple from the Pujari caste. Gouache drawing.
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A badly wounded soldier being carried off the battlefield on a makeshift stretcher made of bayonets. Coloured aquatint.
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A bedridden sick young woman being examined by a doctor, accompanied by her anxious parents. Engraving by F. Engleheart, 1838, after Sir D. Wilkie.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: [1838]Reference: 22198i- Pictures
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The orgies and wild dances of the ancient Romans. Engraving.
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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.
Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662.Reference: 43832i- Pictures
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An arrangement of different castes including snake charmer, brick-layer, basket-maker, potter and wives. Gouache drawing.
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A witch. Etching by G. Petrini after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 37840i- Pictures
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A female figure playing a stringed instrument; representing music. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 25912i- Pictures
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Cupid (Love) with arrows sits next to items representing arts and sciences. Etching by H. Winstanley, 17--, after F. Snyders and A. van Dyck.
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641.Reference: 26099i