Bagpipes Collection

Scottish Types - Bagpipes, Clan McDonald. 19th century

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Bandsman, Piper and Drummer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Date: circa 1908

A Scottish Piper wearing McInnes Tartan Date: 1906

Summoned to Waterloo - Brussels, 1815
SUMMONED TO WATERLOO - BRUSSELS, 1815. Chromolithograph after Robert Hillingford, published 1898 (c). Officers leaving the Duchess of Richmonds ball, with Wellington in a carriage

British Military Recruitment Poster, WW1
Recruitment poster printed by Gale and Polden Limited, 1914 (c). Associated with Princess Louises Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Recruits wanted. Date: 1914

A group of Cameron Highlanders
A group of Queens Own Cameron Highlanders

Paddy the Piper
An itinerant Irish piper sitting at the roadside, playing his full set of uilleann pipes. Date: circa 1904

WW1 - Western Front - Highlanders at Longueval, France, 1916
WW1 - Western Front - Battle of Bazentin Ridge (14th-17th July 1916)

Australian Ladies Pipe Band - World Tour - souvenir of the visit of the band under Drum-Major William Darwin F.R.G.S. and Pipe-Major Jessie Young

Highland Scottish cat playing the bagpipes by Louis Wain Date: 1903

Comic postcard, Scotsman with whisky barrel bagpipes. Date: circa 1900s

Bagpiper in Glen Coe, Highlands of Scotland
Bagpiper in Macdonald tartan, playing in Glen Coe, Highlands of Scotland. Date: 1959

Scottish Types - Scottish Dancing, Clan Gordon. 19th century

A Scottish Highland Piper. Date: circa 1940s

Two Scottish frogs on a New Year card
Two Scottish frogs in tartan on a New Year card in the shape of a tankard with two handles. Date: circa 1890s

Comic postcard, girl, boy and bagpipe player - Don't hold back a willing man! Date: early 20th century

The Fool. Series The Dance of Death in Les Simulachres
The Fool. A skeleton playing the bagpipes while tugging at clothes

Wale fishing. Facsimile after a woodcut from La
Whale fishing. Facsimile after a woodcut from La cosmographie universelle by Andre Thevet (1516-1590), published in Paris in 1575

Peasant dances of the May Feasts. Facsimile of an engraving from a miniature in a 15th-century book of hours

A mystical meal and King David playing psalms, 13th century
A mystical meal with the Holy Grail vase on the table and King David playing psalms on a harp. Six musicians playing vielle, lute, bagpipes, shawm and drum

Scottish bagpiper playing music for maids outside a farm
Scottish bagpiper in kilt and feathercap playing music for maids outside a Georgian farm. A girl collects coins in a hat, and another maid carries a bucket of feed to the pigs

Roman sacrificial paraphernalia
Bull prepared for sacrifice, from a bas-relief owned by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi 1, vessel with swan's neck to draw water for a sacrifice 2, bagpipes or flutes played at sacrifices

Costumes of the people of Italy, 1858

Musician with bagpipes wearing a hat, jacket and breeches, 18th century

Costumes of Scottish highlanders, 19th century. A piper in tartan jacket and kilt with bagpipes. Another man in plumed hat, tartan kilt and sporran. Men dancing a highland fling in the background

WW1 - Four Gurkha Bagpipe Pipers - British Indian Army forces on the Western Front in France. Date: 1915

The arch of Laodicea in Syria, near Latakia
View of the ruins of the hexagonal court in the Heliopolis, Temple of Baalbek, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. Mistakenly labeled Arco di Laodicea

Fools dance, 14th century
A line of fools in hoods with bells dancing the fools dance to bagpipe and regal music, 14th century

Scots Guard playing the bagpipes. circa 1908

Early medieval English peasants including a Bagpipe player. 12th century

Types of the Black Watch 1899
One of the gallant regiments represented at the Battle of Magersfontein, Kimberley, South Africa. Date: December 1899

Street musicians with a monkey, Victorian period

Street musicians with bagpipes and monkey

Highland dancing, Scotland - Victorian period

The first lesson - Victorian period

Piper, May Fair, Ballyclare, Ireland in 1883

Going with the Wind
Cartoon, punning on the title of the recently released film Gone with the Wind'. Date: 1940

A Scottish Highlander Piper plays Auld Lang Syne whilst strolling through the thistles and the heather... Date: circa 1942

Highland Scots Piper by Arthur Jule Goodman Date: 1893

People Before Profit demonstration, London
A People Before Profit demonstration in Upper Street, Islington, North London, against rent increases and property development. Date: 1974

Death, playing the bagpipes, lifts up the Fool's green robes to expose him

Bilston Glen Pipe Band March Banner National
bilston, glen, pipe, band, march, banner, national, union, mineworkers, day, edinburgh, 1973, scottish, miners, gala, bagpipes, pipes, drum, tartan, history, historical, 10508863

Drummer, Piper, Bandsmen 1st Scots Guards British Army Regiment 1890s

Scottish regiment, British army, pipe band, Malta or Egypt, 1880 s

English tourists and Scot in tartan jacket sailing on Loch Leven in the Scottish highlands. View of Loch Leven Castle in the background

Advert for Luvisca pyjamas by Lawson Wood 1931
Delightful advertisement by Lawson Wood for Luvisca pyjamas, showing a Scottish father playing the bagpipes in order to rock a concerned looking baby to sleep. Date: 1931

Bronze figure found at Roman fort at Richborough, Kent
Bronze figure of a Roman soldier playing the bagpipes, found at the Roman fort at Richborough, Kent, site of the Claudian invasion of Britain in 43 AD. Date: 1843

Mummers and fools, 14th century
Mummers in odd masks and colourful robes (top, bottom), and a line of fools in hoods with bells dancing to bagpipe and regal music at a Festival of Fools (middle), 14th century

Peasants dancing in a clearing to music from a recorder and bagpipes. After an engraving by Claudine Bouzonnet Stella, 17th century

Piper of a Highland Regiment, 17th century, in kilt, hose, jacket and bonnet, with bagpipes, sporran and claymore

French musician playing the musette de cour or bagpipes, 15th century. He wears a pink justaucorps tunic with capuchon hood and green pantalon

Brodick Bay and Goatfell, Arran, Scotland, with bagpipes, red berries and eight tartans in the background: MacNeil, MacGregor, MacArthur, MacIntyre, MacFie, Gordon, Gunn and Farquharson

A Scottish Jacobite Soldier playing the bagpipes. circa 1745

Study of Highland Piper, playing his bagpipes, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Men of the Oban Pipe Band, playing their bagpipes at the Highland Games, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Date: 1950s

MER-PEOPLE / SEA-LADY
A Sea-Lady surrounded by sea creatures and a young man playing bagpipes. (Irish story)

Music - Bagpipes
Bagpipers of the 1st Scots Guards Date: 1895

Indian musician plays noseflute and bagpipes simultaneously
An itinerant Indian musician plays a wind instrument similar to a nose flute using one nostril, whilst playing the bagpipes using his mouth

Champion Piper - Oban, Scotland
Champion Piper John McColl (1860-1943) - Oban, Scotland. One of a family of famous MacColl pipers. Date: circa 1903

The War Budget - Piper Laidlaw
Front cover of The War Budget featuring a portrait of Piper Daniel Laidlaw, who won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Loos

George Chirgwin
George H Chirgwin, 1854 - 1922. Music hall entertainer, known as the White-Eyed Musical Moke or the White- Eyed Kaffir

Altarpiece of the Epiphany by Joan Reixach (active 1430-1484
Gothic. Altarpiece of the Epiphany by Joan Reixach (active 1430-1484). Detail. Augustian convent. Rubielos de Mora, Teruel. Aragon. National Art Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

A French cornemuse and an Indian sarangi
Page from the Illustrated London News, 9th March 1963, showing two instruments from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: a French cornemuse

Musical instruments: the bagpipe
A bagpipe

Scottish troops on New Years Day, WW1
Scottish troops enjoying a sing-song on the Western Front on New Years Day, World War One. Several of the men are playing bagpipes. Date: circa 1916

Bagpiper in the Trossachs, Scotland
Bagpiper playing in the Trossachs, Scotland. Date: 1959

Folk dancing in Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, France
Piper accompanying folk dancers in Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, France. circa 1969

Bagpiper in the street, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, France
Man playing bagpipes in the street, wearing traditional costume, in Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, France. circa 1969

Gothic. Altarpiece. Saint Michael. Adoration of the Shepherd
Gothic. Altarpiece of Saint Michael. Adoration of the Shepherds. By Master Girard. 14th century. From Church of Saint Mary of Cervera. Museum of Cervera. Catalonia. Spain

Second Master of Olite (14th century). The Annunciation to t
Spain. Olite. Navarre. Olite, Second Master of Olite (14th century). The Annunciation to the Shepherds. Circa 1333. Gothic art. From Olite. Navarre Museum. Pamplona. Spain

Rag week stunt on the river, Cambridge University, showing students in costume in a punt, one of them playing bagpipes, another playing a drum. Date: 1967

Misfitz - Scottie. early 20th century

Archivolts depicting angels musicians. Cathedral of Palma of
Spain. Palma of Majorca. Cathedral of Saint Mary. Gate of Viewpoint. Archivolts depicting angels musicians. Gothic style. Detail. 14th century. Balearic Islands

Two Scottish frogs on a Christmas card
Two Scottish frogs in tartan on a Christmas card in the shape of a drinking horn. Date: circa 1890s

Social / Germany / Peasants
A lively scene of a peasants festival Date: 16th century

Harry Lauder
Sir Harry Lauder (1870-1950) Scottish music hall entertainer, pictured in caricature by Simpson. Date: 1929

Blaw, Man! An incident in a billet in France, Arthur Garrat
A Scottish solider from a Highland regiment, wearing a kilt, tries to teach a small French boy how to play the bagpipes. Date: 1918

Musical instruments of the Hebrews and Babylonians

Cornemuse, Calabrian bagpipes, musette and bellows.. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J

Costumes of Tripoli, Libya, bagpiper and a female dancer.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Scots Guards marching through Cologne, WW1
The pipers of the Scots Guards playing troops through the streets of Cologne during the occupation of the Rhineland after the end of the First World War. Date: 1919

New Years Day with a Highland Regiment
On the Western front, a Highland Regiment celebrate the New Year in traditional Scottish style, with sword dancing, bagpipe playing and singing. Date: 1 January 1917

Gibraltar scouts camping in Staffordshire
Gibraltar scouts camping at Kibblestone Scout Camp, Staffordshire, 29 July 1969. During their visit they met local Rotarians. Date: 1969

Sea Scouts playing bagpipes, Gibraltar
Gibraltar Sea Scouts playing the bagpipes and drums, practising for their visit to Edinburgh for the 15th Scottish International Scout Jamboree at Blair Atholl Castle, Scotland. Date: 1970s

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