Ballad Collection (page 2)

Ballad of the Farmer and the Hawk, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Ballad of Eufemio Zapata, Mexico
Ballad of Eufemio Zapata - brother of Emiliano Zapata, an active figure in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1911). Date: circa 1910

Ballad of Macario Romero, Mexico, who was determined to take leave from the army to visit his girlfriend. circa 1900s

Ballad of the jury, Mexico
The ballad of the jury, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Posada, The ballad of the snail, Mexico
The ballad of the snail, Mexico. circa 1900s

Ballad seller, c. 1800
A man selling ballads or broadsheets, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Until we meet again - Music Sheet Cover, Waltz ballad, words by Stanley J. Damerell, music by Tolchard Evans and featured by Sidney Lipton and his Grosvenor House Dance Band

Ballad of Lino Matas, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Mary Davies - Welsh singer (mezzo-soprano)
Mary Davies (1855-1930), Welsh singer (mezzo-soprano) and the co-founder and first President of the Welsh Folk Song Society

Ballad of Old England. Robin Adair. Date: 1903

The Ballad of Oriana by W. Holman Hunt for Moxons Tennyson, 1857 Date: 1925

Pastime With Good Company
This picture shows a Christmas scene at Henry VIIIs table as the boars head is carried in and The Kings Ballad (Pastime With Good Company) is sung. The song was composed by Henry VIII himself

Mad. Simonet in the Character of the Princess
Dancer Adelaide Simonet the role of the Princess in the Grand Ballad (ballet) Ninette a la Cour (1781) Date: 1781

The Ballad (1861). Hardy, James, Jnr. 1832-1889. James Hardy Junior, a landscape, still-life, domestic and sporting painter, was the son of the landscape and still-life painter James Hardy

Gottfried August Burger
GOTTFRIED AUGUST BURGER German poet, editor and scholar, promoted folksong and ballad literature. Date: 1747 - 1794

Spanish Succession War
BATTLE OF OUDENARDE A popular image of the fight, illustrating a street ballad Date: 11 July 1708

Street music: a ballad singer, 1865
A ragged ballad singer sings on a street corner. Ladies in crinolines hurry past him, but three ragged children show interest. Date: 1865

Street music: A street singer, 1857
A passing child shows charity to an old street singer, placing money in his hat in appreciation for his music. Date: 1857

Street music: a ballad singer
The ballad singer. " He is your only performer that requires not many entreaties for a song; for he will chant, without asking, to a street cur or a parish post."

Street music: A bird mimic, 1816
A street musician who mimics the notes of common English birds by means of a folded bit of tin, which is held between the teeth; but in order to engage the attention of the credulous

Street music: St Cecilias Day street scene, 1837
A street scene showing the cacophony of noises to be heard on St Cecilas feast day, the patron saint of music, which falls in November

Street music: orphan ballad singers
Orphan ballad singers perform in a street. An audience of children listen, whilst a woman seated on a bench looks thoughtful

Street music: Paris balladeer
Two fashionably dressed young women laugh at a ballad singer as he sings in a Paris street. Perhaps he is singing a comic song. Date: 1912

Street music: a blind ballad singer, 1815
A blind chaunter of old ballads, shown here accompanying his voice by playing upon a cat gut string drawn over a tea canister, and tied at both ends with a mop stick. Date: 1815

The Coiffing by Aubrey Beardsley, an illustration to his poem The Ballad of a Barber which was first published in The Savoy, volume III in July 1896

Hermit of Warkworth
The Hermit of Warkworth (Northumberland) - the scene in the traditional ballad where the lovers approach the hermit

Music at home - the ballad singer
A ballad singer in rustic 18th century Holland. Date: 18th century

Ballad / Mars Daughter
EARL MARs DAUGHTER She is carried off to her lover (who lives with her as a dove by day) by a a flight of swans (really her lovers brothers and their men). Date: traditional

Ballad / Bar the Door
GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR Both goodwife and goodman refuse to go and bar the door, and agree that the first one to speak shall do it. Date: traditional

Ballad / Young Bekie 2
YOUNG BEKIE Young Bekie, thrown into prison for daring to love the kings daughter, Burd Isbel, shares it with mice and rats, but she will rescue him. Date: traditional

Ballad / Hynd Horn
HYND HORN The kings daughter gives the beggar a drink, failing to recognise her erstwhile lover, Hynd Horn, but all will end well, I promise you. Date: traditional

Ballad / False Lover
THE FALSE LOVER WON BACK When John tells her he loves another, the fair maid goes after him and by the end hes as deep in love wi her as she was ower again. Date: traditional

Ballad / Erlinton

Ballad / Young Bekie
YOUNG BEKIE The Billy Blind tells Burd Isbel that Young Bekie is getting married that day - to another girl. She quickly dresses and all ends well. Date: traditional

Ballad / Lord Randal
LORD RANDAL O yes, I am poisoned, mother, make my bed soon, for I m sick at the heart, and I fain wald lie down (His true love gave him eels boiled in broth.) Date: traditional

Ballad / Yonge Andrew
YONGE ANDREW He lures the earls daughter with false promises, then strips her of her fine clothes and the money she has stolen for him from her father. Date: traditional

Ballad / Gypsy Laddie
THE GYPSY LADDIE The gypsies cast a spell over the earl of Cashans lady, and she goes off with them and settles for an open air life with the gypsie laddie. Date: 1918

British Ballad, The Eve of St. John
THE EVE OF SAINT JOHN. British ballad written by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

British Ballad, Elfinland Wud
ELFINLAND WUD. British ballad of Scottish origin by William Motherwell (1797-1835)

British Ballad, Fair Helen of Kirconnell
FAIR HELEN (Helen of Kirconnell - Kirconnel - Kirkconnel) British ballad of Scottish origin telling the tragic tale of Helen Irving (Fair Helen of Kirkconnel) daughter of the Laird of Kirkconnel

British Ballad, Sir James the Rose
SIR JAMES THE ROSE. British broadside ballad, credited to Michael Bruce (1746-1767) telling the account of Sir James the Roses love for a lady named Matilda and their ultimate demise

British Ballad, Barthrams Dirge
BARTHRAMs DIRGE. British ballad by Robert Surtees (1779-1834) Telling the story of a womans mourning for her murdered lover

British Ballad, Lady Anne Bothwells Lament
LADY ANNE BOTHWELLS LAMENT. British ballad detailing the lament of a grieving wife whos husband has deserted her and her child. She finally contemplated suicide

British Ballad, Glenfinlas
GLENFINLAS. British ballad written by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) telling the tale of two mysterious female seductresses who send two Scottish hunters to their doom

British Ballad, Hengist and Mey
HENGIST AND MEY. British ballad, published in 1772 by William Julius Mickle (1735-1788)

British Ballad, Sir Cauline, Knight
SIR CAULINE (Sir Cawline) British ballad telling the story of Sir Cawline who is in love with the kings daughter and has to do some great deed to be worthy of her

British Ballad, Rudiger
RUDIGER. Ballad by Robert Southey (1774 - 1843) On the banks of the Rhine sits a palace. A boat or small barge makes toward the shore, drawn by a Swan and carrying an unknown soldier (Rudiger)

British Ballad, The Gay Goshawk
THE GAY HOSHAWK. British ballad about a Scottish squire who sends letters to his love by a goshawk. He tells her that he will die for love

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