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Printer’s Ornament with harp and vineThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a lyre or harp together with vine.

Keywords: ornaments, music, christmas, musical instruments, harps, greyscale

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Added: 2004-06-15

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Printer’s ornament with birdsThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Two birds touch beaks, perhaps a mother feeding a baby, in this printer’s ornament, used as a tailpiece (tail-piece) at the end of a chapter. The design includes a harp, roses, ribbon or bunting and [...]

Keywords: ornaments, music, romance, roses, birds, musical instruments, harps, colour

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Added: 2014-08-26

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Musical BorderFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

This musical border features Greek or Roman busts at the corners, musical scores, laurel wreaths, musical instruments including violins, trumpets and horns, and is printed mostly in green and black. I [...]

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Wandering MinstrelModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

This youth has a lute strapped to his back and holds an open manuscript book in his left hand in his right, a quill pen. Perhaps he is writing a song, although he won’t get far without an inkwell. He [...]

Keywords: minstrels, people, music, musical instruments, song-writing, books, pens, men, medieval, greyscale

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Added: 2023-12-10

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Music Hath CharmsHome Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

A boy in a farmyard sits on a large wooden barrel open next to a well-pump and plays the flute. He wears a tunic down to his knees, a hat, leggings (we just see one knee) and I think tall boots. There [...]

Keywords: music, children, farmyards, animals, people, children, illustrations for children, musical instruments, flutes, greyscale

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Added: 2017-03-04

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Christmas MassModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

Choirboys, an orchestra, a conductor who appears to be starting into space, an inuntersested congregation, some of whom are kneeling at at the door. It looks as if perhaps we see a minstrel’s gallery, [...]

Keywords: christmas, choirboys, boys, people, singing, music, religion, xmas, interiors, chapels, churches, musical instruments, greyscale

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Added: 2023-12-10

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Shepherd BoyA Painter’s Anthology (1924)

A young man, a shepherd, wears a broad-brimmed hat and a ragged animal skin, spotted like that of a tiger; he appears to be barefoot in long grass, although the effect is that of a hooved satyr. He is [...]

Keywords: shepherds, people, engravings, animals, sheep, pastoral scenes, musical instruments, pipes, trees, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2015-03-23

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Cherub playing a grand pianoModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

Strictly speaking i think he’s a putto, as cherubs have wings and putti are just plump little naked children, usually boys, although putti are sometimes depicted with wings. In this picture a red-hair [...]

Keywords: cherubs, putti, nudity, bare feet, boys, pianos, musical instruments, xmas, colour

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240.—Chairs. From Harleian MS. No. 603.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Harleian MS. 603 is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated psalter from the middle of the 10th century. This is the same manuscript as Fig. 239. The three chairs illustrated here do not look very comfortable, but [...]

Keywords: furniture, people, minstrels, saxon england, hats, musical instruments, chairs, greyscale

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Added: 2011-06-06

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284.—The Harp, Accompanied by Other Instruments (cotton MS.).Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

[The Anglo-Saxons] put their own harp into the hands of the Royal Psalmist (Fig. 284) and indeed we see here King David on his throne, dressed as an Anglo-Saxon king. There’s also a violinist, a trump [...]

Keywords: royalty, people, musical instruments, music, christmas, religion, saxon england, greyscale

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Added: 2008-10-11

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: A.—Mountain HornIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“The mountain horn, of wood, bound with brass, is nearly 8ft. long, and is one of those used by the Alpine herdsmen of Switzerland, and likewise in Sweden, to give signals to each other, or to call th [...]

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: B.—SerinetteIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“The serinette, or French bird-organ, was employed by ladies to teach airs to their little singing-birds, serins or finches; this one is of the seventeenth century, 11 in. by 8 in., made of beech-wood [...]

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: C.—DulcimerIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“The dulcimer is Italian, with twenty-six sets of metal strings, to be played with two little hammers.” (p. 368)

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: D.—Machête.Illustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“The machête, or small guitar, shaped like a fish, is a Portugese instrument, from Madeira.” (p. 368)

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: E.—Quinterna, of ChiternaIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

The quinterna, or chiterna, made at Hamburg in 1539, is ornamented with tortoise-shell, ivory figures, and precious stones; it has ten strings of cat-gut.” (p. 368)

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: F.—GuitarIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“[F] is an Italian Guitar of the sixteenth century, which seems to have been mounted with five sets of strings, fouor sets having three strings each, and one set having four strings, each set tuned in [...]

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: G.—Flauto dolce, or flûte à bec.Illustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

The Flauto dolce, or sweet flute, is called in English the Recorder.; in French is is the flûte à bec or beaked flute. “The tortoise-shell flauto dolce, or flageolet, belonged to the late illustrious [...]

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Added: 2006-08-04

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: H.—Vielle, or Hurdy-GurdyIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“The French vielle, which we should call a hurdy-gurdy, bears the date of 1550, and the monograms of Catherine de Medici and of Henri II., with the Royal arms of France; it has ten ivory keys and six [...]

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: K.—Violin.Illustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“The Earl of Warwick sends a boxwood violin, carved with woodland scenes, bearing the date of 1578, which was given by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Leicester, and which our present Queen [Victoria] [...]

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Added: 2007-04-04

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: L.—Italian Kit, or Small Fiddle.Illustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“The remaining articles shown in our Illustration are two kits, or small fiddles, one being Italian, of the date 1600 [...]” (p. 368)

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