Fiddle Collection (page 2)

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

May Day Dance in 1698
May Day Dance -- two women dance while a man plays the fiddle. 1698

Austrian Musical Trio - Original Wiener Schrammeln. Schrammelmusik is a style of Viennese folk music originating in the late nineteenth century and still performed in present-day Austria

Nursery Rhymes - He was playing the fiddle
He was playing the fiddle - Dog on Chair playing flute. Part of Box 52 Boswell collection. Nursery Rhymes. Date: circa 1890s

Fiddle Sowing - a close up of above of the man using the fiddle sower and the girl leaning over the bucket of seed in a ploughed field. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Fiddle Sowing and Harrowing - an agricultural scene with a man using a fiddle sower with a girl behind carrying a bucket of seeds, in a ploughed field

Two jovial Easter bunnies, one looking rather mad, dancing away to the tunes produced from the violin of his friend! Date: circa 1920s

Aleppo, Syria - Arab Musicians
Aleppo, Syria - Four Arab Musicians surrounding a chap having a wonderful time with his nargile pipe and small table full of drinks. He is protected by a small canopy. Date: circa 1910s

Harrow and Sowing Fiddle - same view as WAG 3101, an Agricultural scene of a man using a fiddle sower with a girl carrying a bucket of seeds, to the right is a man and horse pulling a Harrow

Myanmar - Street Musicians with Pattala and Mon Violin
Myanmar - Street Musicians playing a curved Burmese Xylophone or Pattala and the Mon violin, a 3-string fiddle with a western-like body played upright. Date: circa 1906

Illustration, Hey Diddle Diddle, the cat and the fiddle. (1 of 4) circa late 19th century

Music cover, Gypsy Violin, words by Charles O Flynn, music by Jack Betzner. 1935

Music cover, Fiddle & I, Waltz
Music cover, Fiddle & I, a waltz based on Mrs Goodeves popular song, by Otto Roeder. circa 1891

Music cover, Fiddle Sticks Polka by J H Wolton, dedicated to Mrs Charles Crutchley. circa 1890

Snap card - Hey! Diddle, Diddle
Nursery Rhyme Snap card - Hey! Diddle, Diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon; the little dog laughed to see such fun, and the dish ran away with the spoon. early 20th century

Boy with violin on a cutout Christmas card
Boy with violin surrounded by pink flowers on a cutout Christmas card. circa 1890s

Two Dance in Garden
A romantic couple have been dancing all night and now dawn is breaking - but they continue to dance, and their friend continues to accompany them on his fiddle... Date: early 19th century

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

Girl and boy in peasant costume on a birthday card, with a decorative spray of pink roses and white lily of the valley. Date: circa 1890s

Two musical clowns on a Christmas card
Two musical clowns shaking hands on a Christmas card -- May Mirth and Music join hands this Christmastide. Date: circa 1890s

Boy giving drink to a baby in a high chair
A little boy giving a drink to a baby in a high chair. Date: circa 1960s

Boy feeding baby in a high chair
A little boy feeding a reluctant baby in a high chair. Date: circa 1960s

Origins of the bow.. Origins of the bow. Medieval paintings, stuatus and objects depicting early violins or fiddles. Copperplate engraving by John Lee from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal

Favourite Sayings - He has got the fiddle, but not the stick
Black and white lantern slide of a man holding a fiddle. Painted background is of a music shop.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection. He has got the fiddle, but not the stick

Ancient musical instruments
A selection of ancient musical instruments. 1 - A symphony, or fiddle. 2 & 3- Egyptian instruments of the 18th century. 4 - Sackbut. 5, 6, & 7 - cherubic musicians from Herculaneum. 8 - a toph(drum)

The hired fiddler at the end of the party
A hired musician prepares to leave an event he has being playing at. A fan lies discarded on the floor as he packs his instrument back into the case. Date: 1883

Japan - Geisha Girl playing the Violin
A young Japanese girl playing the violin. Date: circa 1906

Lebanon - Two Bedouin Musicians playing masenqo
Lebanon - Two Bedouin Musicians, both playing the masenqo. Date: circa 1910s

Sordino - known to the French as a pochette - this instrument is a pocket fiddle. Derived in form from the medieval Rebec, orignating from the Near East and also known as the Gigue

Chinese Fiddles - Two kinds of Saw Chine or Chinese fiddles are shown here. The first is a Saw Duang, identified by the jewels around one of th pegs

Young Fiddler, Bermuda
Young Fiddle player, Bermuda Date: circa 1910s

A party at Brer Rabbits House

Interior scene with family gathered around man playing fiddle

Fiddler in Thomas Hardy Drama Festival, Dorchester
At the Thomas Hardy Drama Festival in Dorchester, Dorset, Henry Bailey, the old fiddler, played the College Hornpipe in the play The Three Wayfarers

Cat and Fiddle
The cat and the fiddle

Cat and Fiddle Inn - Buxton, Derbyshire Date: circa early 1920s

A Trio of Violinists, photographed in Portsmouth. They look Eastern European in appearance, although the original bears no detail as to their true origin. Date: circa 1890

D Carleton-Smyth. Hey, Diddle Diddle
Hey Diddle Diddle, the cat and the fiddle... 20th century

D Wheeler. Cock-a-doodle-do
Cock-a-doodle-doo, my dame has lost her shoe... 20th century

J Mercer. Cock-a-doodle-do
Cock-a-doodle-do, my dame has lost her shoe... 20th century

J Hassall. Hey diddle diddle
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle... 20th century

Val d Ossau muscians
Val d Ossau men playing traditional local instruments to accompany dances. On the right we have a fiddler with his fiddle and on the right

Street Arab / Fiddle 1887
Street boy with his fiddle Date: 1887

British Ballad, The Cruel Sister
THE CRUEL SISTER (The Twa Sisters - The Miller and the Kings Daughter) British ballad first known to have appeared on a broadside in 1656

Hey Diddle Diddle - Nursery Rhyme
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

Dancing Between Decks
A light-hearted scene during a crossing of emigrants from Britain to New Zealand in 1860, showing passengers dancing to the sound of a fiddle between decks

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