Cello Collection

Various musical instruments

Miss Beatrice Harrison playing the Cello
Miss Beatrice Harrison (1892-1965) and a Pupil Beatrice Harrison, A Famous Cellist who by the age of 11 was an Exhibitor at the Royal College of Music and by age 14 a Scholar

Margate Pier - Jessie Wildon and her Bijou Orchestra
Margate Pier - Jessie Wildon (Mrs Fred Wildon - pictured on left with cello) and her Bijou Orchestra - a musical quintet. The Wildon family ran orchestras of various types during the summer in

M Rostropovich / Photo
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH Russian cellist

Beethoven / Bonn Birthplce
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN His birthplace at 515 Bonngasse, Bonn The Relic Room Date: 1770 - 1827

Man in the Iron Mask, playing the cello in prison
There are conflicting theories as to who this man was. One is that he was Count Ercole Antonio Mattioli (Matthioli or Marchioly, 1640-1703), an Italian diplomat, arrested as Eustache Dauger in 1669

George H. Chirgwin know as the White-Eyed Kaffir
George H. Chirgwin (14 December 1854 17 November 1922) was a popular British music hall star billed as " the White-Eyed Kaffir", a black face minstrel act

Lise Cristiani / Mettais
LISE CRISTIANI Musician, and traveller in the Far East Date: -

Boy playing a cello. Happy hours. Date: circa 1906

String quartet, 1872
Mr.L.Ries, Madame Norman-Neruda, Herr Straus and Signore Piatti performing at one of the Monday popular concerts at St Jamess Hall. Date: 1872

Hollman the Cellist
HOLLMAN " A great cellist" Date: 1897

Monkeys playing music

Christmas Cracker box label
Label from a box of musical toy crackers featuring a cello playing pixie flanked by two smaller pixies holding Chinese paper lanterns against starry sky

Stradivarius / Postcard
ANTONIUS STRADIVARIUS or ANTONIO STRADIVARI Italian violin maker of Cremona; he also made other stringed instruments

Toy Theatre, Pollocks New Stage Orchestra. 19th century

Victorian Christmas Xmas Snow Snowing Card Robin
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Fresco, Castle of Freyr, Wallonia, Belgium
Animals, birds, musical scores and instruments, fresco on the staircase in the Great entrance hall, late 18th century, at the Castle of Freyr, in Wallonia, Namur, Ardennes, Belgium

Poland. Harvesters Festival. Engraving by Lemaitre. History of Poland, by Charles Foster. Panorama Universal, 1840

In Memoriam, Heroic Musicians of the Titanic who died at their posts like men - Wallace Hartley, bandleader and violinist; Percy C Taylor, cellist; Georges Krins, violinist; Roger Bricoux

Madame Suggia, cellist Date: 1925

Sheridan Russell
Oil painting of Sheridan Russell, equipped with a cello. Date: circa 1929

Violin and stringed musical instrument maker's workshop - Johann Reiter, Mittenwald, Germany, creator of the octave violin. Instruments on display include violins, violas, cellos and lutes

Decorative Dutch oven tiles, 17th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), renowned Russian cellist and conductor. Seen here with his wife, the Russian soprano Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (b 1926). The couple married in 1955

Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer
Paul Tortelier (1914-1990), French cellist and composer Date: circa 1970s

Mstislav Rostropovich, renowned Russian cellist
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), renowned Russian cellist and conductor. Seen here (centre) with the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (left) and the English composer Benjamin Britten (right)

Jacqueline Du Pre, celebrated British cellist
Jacqueline Mary Du Pre (1945-1987), celebrated British cellist who, sadly, stopped performing at the age of 28 and died at the age of 42 as a result of multiple sclerosis. Date: circa 1970s

Viennese Band at the Alhambra, London, Musical Director J Delikat, programme includes works by Wagner, Elgar, German, Sarasate, Liszt and Sousa, 12 April 1903. Date: 1903

Young student graduating from a boys school. A tutor reading lessons from a lectern to boys on benches in a large hall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson

Gwen Farrar at home
Page from The Sketch featuring a number of photographs of actress, cellist, singer and all round variety artist Gwen Farrar at her home

Matthew Skeggs, as Seignor Bumbasto, playing
Matthew Skeggs, in the character of Seignor Bumbasto, playing a broomstick instead of a cello with a bow. Skeggs was a publican and performer of musical tricks with the Choice Spirits

Two gentlemen composers in a music room before a piano, 19th century. The portly man says, I d give three operas to have created your romance

Pot with Chinese musicians playing cello and pipa from Nevers, France. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l Auteur

Decorative rectangular plate from Rouen with handles. Painted with six putti in laurel wreaths with cello, lute, lyre, quill, torch on a gold ground, bordered with foliage

Morte d Arthur
Illustration of angel playing cello from Morte d Arthur. Artist: Aubrey Beardsley Date: 1890s

Artwork by Florence Auerbach, boy playing cello
Artwork by Florence Auerbach, boy in a medieval tunic playing a cello. Date: late 19th century

Cartoon, A Little Music. 1870

Choirboys and musicians on a Christmas card -- Nowell we sing, gladness to bring. Date: circa 1880s

Cats playing musical instruments on a Christmas postcard -- Merry Musicians, The Nursery Series. Date: circa 1890s

Four musical cats on a Christmas postcard, singing and playing instruments. Date: circa 1890s

Erasmic Soap - delightfully refreshing Date: 1919

Johanna de Lasandes Luncheon, detail Date: 1740

Concert Mecanique, invented by M Richard
A Concert Mecanique invented by Monsieur Richard and demonstrated in the Royal Library. It consists of three automata, playing keyboard, violin and cello

Auguste van Biene - Dutch composer, cellist
Auguste van Biene (1849-1913) - Dutch composer, cellist and actor, best known for his composition The Broken Melody, performed by the composer as part of a musical play of the same name

Musical frogs on eight Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Rostropovich, Yehudi Menuhin, Diana Gould at Orford
Left to right: Unidentified assistant, Mrs Menuhin (Diana Gould the ballerina), Yehudi Menuhin arriving for the Choral and Orchestral Concert during the Aldeburgh Festival on 23 June 1963 Date: 1963

Musical instrument maker Johann Reiter of Mittenwald, Germany, surrounded by his wonderful creations, from lutes and cellos to violas and violins

Musicians with instruments on a Christmas and New Year card
Musicians with instruments on a Christmas card, with a quotation from The Merchant of Venice: I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Date: circa 1890s

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