Fiddle Collection

The Emperor Stradivarius violin
The famous Emperor Stradivarius violin, dating from 1715. It was bought by the violinist and composer Jan Kubelik in 1910 for 10, 000 -- the highest price paid for a violin to that date. "

An Irish Fiddler - a view of a man sitting with a fiddle outside a thatched cottage and a lady and two boys looking on. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

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

Cat in tuxedo playing a violin

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon, the little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon

Chinese musical instruments
A selection of Chinese musical instruments, including a bell(1), gong, (2), cymbals(4), a guqin or seven-stringed zither(7), a pipa or four-stringed lute (8), Yueqin or moon-shaped lute(11)

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

Musicians in the snow on a Christmas card, about to have something poured on them from a jug. circa 1890s

Bow Fiddle Rock, a well-known natural rock formation, at Scaurnose, on the Banffshire coast, between Cullen and Portknockie, Scotland. Date: 1960s

Hey Diddle Diddle
The artist has got cow, cat, fiddle, dish, spoon and dog into his picture, but the connection between them remains obscure

Lear / Nonsense / Isles
There was on Old Man of the Isles, whose face was pervaded with smiles; He sung high dum diddle, and played on the fiddle, that amiable Man of the Isles

Japanese girl playing violin
A stunning photographic postcard depicting a young Japanese girl playing the voilin

Dancing Dogs
Dogs dancing to a hurdy-gurdy and fiddle

Medieval comedian playing bellows and tongs
Vignette of a comedian holding bellows and tongs as if playing a fiddle, 14th century manuscript. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

The Cat and Fiddle, Inn, near Christchurch, New Forest, Dorset - E.T.W. Dennis postcard c. 1950 Date: circa 1950

Cat and Fiddle Inn, near Buxton, Derbyshire Dales - Painted by William Carruthers Affleck for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

The Cat and Fiddle Inn, New Forest, Hampshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Music cover, The Night Was Made for Love, by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach, from the musical The Cat and the Fiddle Date: 1931

Comic postcard, Two women discuss musician boyfriend Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman with violin on the phone Date: 20th century

Music cover, Fiddle & I (Waltz) Music cover, Fiddle & I (Waltz)
Music cover, Fiddle and I (Waltz), dedicated to Charles Henfrey, based on Mrs Goodeves Popular Song by Otto Roeder. 19th century

Misses Maud and Grace Hubbard, musicians, with violin and harp. Date: circa 1908

King David playing handbells from a 14th century manuscript
King David playing handbells with hammers from a 14th century manuscript of his psalms, with a vignette of a comedian holding bellows and tongs as if playing a fiddle

Dancers on stilts in the Champs Elysees. A family of street entertainers, the country folks of Landes, perform while mother bangs a drum and father directs on horseback

Adam and Eve driven out of the Garden of Eden by an angel and accompanied by a skeleton playing a fiddle. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by Hans

Tatar musicians in a Crimean town square, mid 19th century
Tatar musicians playing fiddle and balalaika in a Crimean town square, men smoking pipes and drinking tea. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857

Greetings card - Violinist and Pianist performing
Greetings card - Violinist and Pianist in silhouette, performing. 20th century

Nursery rhyme, Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle, the Cow jumped over the Moon

Woman playing violin in the Place du Tertre, Paris
Woman playing the violin in the Place du Tertre, Paris. Date: 1960s

Quilting Frolic Date: 1792

Stanton Drew Stones
Stanton Drew Stone circle is celebrated in folklore as the members of a wedding party lured by the devil to celebrate on the sabbath and thus becoming petrified!

PANTOMIME CHILDREN SING
A group of child performers rehearse the Lullaby for a pantomime, accompanied by piano and fiddle. Date: 1889

Small boy busking with his violin for an audience in Dublin
A small boy busking with his violin for an audience in Grafton Street, Dublin, Ireland. He wears a tee shirt and shorts Date: 1992

A young Jordanian man plays a rababah, single-string musical instrument with a leather body. He wears an Arab headdress, a keffiyeh or kufiya Date: circa 1995

Busker with dogs, Cheltenham - 2
A busker plays a tune on his violin outside a shopping centre in Cheltenham, while his two mongrel dogs snooze and stretch. His violin case is open and there some coins in it

Busker with dogs, Cheltenham - 1
A busker plays a tune on his violin outside a shopping centre in Cheltenham, while his two mongrel dogs snooze and stretch. His violin case is open and there are some coins in it. Portrait format

Cloth cap pensioner with violin
An elderly man wearing a cloth cap plays his violin in the front room of his small house in Stoke on Treet, Staffordshire. Image first appeared in The Daily Telegraph Date: circa 1986

Jozef Marian Chelmonski (1849-1914). Herdsman, 1897
Jozef Marian Chelmonski (1849-1914). Polish painter. Herdsman, 1897. National Museum Gallery. Krakow, Poland

Chinese instruments: Huch in, Sheng, San-hsien and Pipa.. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J. Hipkins Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique

Portrait of Daniel van Aken by Frans Hals (1580-1666)
Frans Hals (1580-1666). Dutch painter. Daniel van Aken. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Fiddle and I - a cat strikes up a tune on his violin. (" Hey Diddle Diddle" etc...) Date: 1908

The Old Fiddler -- old man playing a violin. circa 1911

Japanese stringed instruments: Siamisen, kokiu and biwa.. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J. Hipkins Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique

Welsh Crwth - Rare Musical Instrument
Welsh Crwth - a very rare musical instrument - this example is held in a private collection on Anglesey. Hollowed out of a single block of wood, with the soundboard glued

Hurdy gurdy, made by Henry Touvenel. SPAIN. Barcelona. Museum of Music

Nursery Rhyme Characters, including humpty dumpty, the Queen of Hearts, the Old Woman in the Shoe, the cow who jumped over the moon, the cat and the fiddle

18th Century Carols
The village choirmaster, with a group of boys and a man with a fiddle, sing carols in the village street

Dancing to a fiddle by Charles Robinson
A romance blossoms between a young man playing the violin and a girl eager to dance with him. Date: 1914

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