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Frontispiece: Daniel François Esprit AuberFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

From an engraving by G. Deblois, 1867. Auber was a French composer from Paris, born in 1782 and died in May 1871. He wrote a series of comic oeras with Scribe and Auber, including “Leicester” (based o [...]

Keywords: portraits, musicians, greyscale

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Maenad and Faun Full Page BorderStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

In this full-page design a mænad, or female faun, part human and part goat, is sitting under a tree playing a pipe; a male faun is seated next to her playing pipes and with a laurel wreat round his ha [...]

Keywords: fauns, maenads, romance, mythological creatures, borders, full-page borders, colour, trees, musical instruments, musicians, music

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Added: 2020-11-16

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Faun playing pipes to his childrenStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

An adult faun, with the legs of a goat and garlands of flowers in his hair, plays the pan pipes to three faun children. All are topless and have horns. This is a clean design that could be used in p [...]

Keywords: fauns, maenads, romance, mythological creatures, children, horns, borders, full-page borders, colour, trees, musical instruments, musicians, music

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Added: 2021-09-10

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The SeranadeIllustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

A flautist on the rooftops in the moonlight! He is standing on top of a wall to play outside someone’s bedroom window, watched i think by a cat. Despite the text reproduced below, i am not certain he [...]

Keywords: romance, courtship, love, musicians, musical instrumentsromance, love, moonlight, night, roofs, rooftops, moonlight, men, people, love, courting, walls, greyscale

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Added: 2024-10-27

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Street Music—1789.London (Volume I) (1841)

Dayes, who published a collection of street views about 1789, has given us the group which concludes our paper. Here we have the organ, the triangle, the tambourine, and the hurdy-gurdy,—each strivi [...]

Keywords: musicians, street scenes, poverty, busking, people, instruments, animals, children, dogs, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2012-12-23

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Anton RubinsteinFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

A most characteristic silhouette by Mrs. Behr made in 1886 in St. Petersburg. The fac-simile autograph is Rubinstein’s name in Russian. (p. 795) The composer-pianist Anton Rubinstein was born in Nove [...]

Keywords: people, musicians, portraits, sketches, colour

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Added: 2010-11-14

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