Harp Collection (page 5)

A Chinese concert, 1861
A Chinese musical performance, 1861. A lady plays the harp, whilst a child collects payment on a fan from a seated audience member. Date: 1861

St. Patricks Day Postcard
Fair as the Lily White Is My Irish Sweetheart St. Patricks Day is a Delight O Erin may we never part. Date: circa 1907

Prunella Stack
Ann Prunella Stack OBE (1915-2011), President of the Womens League of Health and Beauty, founded by her mother Mrs Bagot Stack

Cardiff Eisteddfod, 1850
The Cardiff Atheneaum Eisteddfod at the town hall, 1850. Date: 1850

The Muse of Music and Pilgrimage Play Cross - Hollywood Bowl, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

Harpist - Mavis Shellshear - displaying admirable pluck! Date: circa 1910s

Bell Harp - Invention attributed to John Simcock a soldier in a regiment of Dragoons and dates from around 1700. The harp is sounded by using a plectrum on either thumb

Symbol of Ireland - Harp. The harp was adopted as a symbol of the Kingdom of Ireland on the coinage from 1542. Date: 1903

Japanese Musician
A Japanese geisha girl playing a shamishen (a type of harp). Date: early 1930s

Lady Agnes Buller - 2
LADY AGNES (nee Percy) BULLER daughter of the duke of Northumberland, wife of Major-General Frederick T Buller, depicted playing the harp in a turban. Date: ? - 1856

Satirical cartoon, Descent of the Great Balloon
Satirical political cartoon, Descent of the Great Balloon, showing ten politicians travelling in a hot-air balloon. Speech bubbles show the mens concerns about the rapid descent of the balloon

Irelands historical emblems. Ancient cross, ancient harp & shamrocks, standard of Erin, roundtower, abbey, lakes of Killarney. Date c1894. Irelands historical emblems

The old hundredth. Date c1903 Sept. 21

Interior at Greville Place, Kilburn, north west London
Colour drawing of a rich interior at Greville Place, Kilburn, north west London, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. circa 1840s

Sarah Curran, Emmets Betrothed
Sarah Curran, Robert Emmets Betrothed crying in grief for his dedath on a harp. She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing

Violin and harp recital on beach, Walton, Essex
On a bright summer day an old gentleman plays his harp and a young boy plays the violin to entertain the holidaymakers on the beach at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. circa 1900

German bard sings in medieval hall
A German bard plays his harp in a smokey medieval hall. Date: Medieval

Harp lesson - L accord parfait
A music teacher instructs a lady pupil, who sits astride a harp and looks up adoringly at him. A lap dog watches the scene with some reservations from a stool underneath the harpsicord

Alfred in the Danish camp
King Alfred the Great disguises himself as a minstrel in order to discover the plans of the Danish leader Guthrum. This he does and is successful at the Battle of Edington which followed. Date: 878

King David and his choir make music inside an illuminated letter C. Date: Early 15th century

Alfred before the Danish General
Disguised as a minstrel, King Alfred the Great stands before the Danish leader Guthrum. Date: 878

Julian Clifford conducting at the Royal Hall, Harrogate
Silhouette of Julian Seymour Clifford (1877-1921), English conductor, composer and pianist, conducting an 8pm concert at the Royal Hall (or Kursaal), Harrogate, Yorkshire. 1919

College Street, Gloucester, during the Three Choirs Festival
The principal approach to the cathedral, showing the special decorations for the Three Choirs Festival, 1904. Date: 1904

Gallery minstrels
Two gallery minstrels serenade the audience below them with their harps Date: Medieval

King Alfred disguised in Danish camp
King Alfred the Great disguises himself as a minstrel and goes undercover at the Danish camp of Guthrum, leader of the Danes in order to find out their plans

Italy - Four Classical Roman Ladies (in the Art Nouveau style!) one of whom is playing a harp. Date: circa 1904

Street music: musicians at home, 1867
Street musicians of Paris leave their slum home and head out to work with their instruments. Date: 1867

Clarissima Plane by Balthasar Prasberg
The title page of Clarissima Plane by Balthasar Prasberg. Date: 1504

Title page of a music book, 1517.A woman supervises an ensemble of musicians. Date: 1517

Music at home, 1820
A musical evening at home. Date: 1820

Music at home - a trio of musicians
Three ladies play musical instruments together ina domestic setting. Date: 1886

Arion of Methymna leaping into the sea
" He leapt into the sea" -- an illustration to the childrens story, Harry and Herodotus, or Tales of an Old Traveller

Burmese Harpist - Myanmar
Burmese Harpist, playing a traditional Burmese saung, also known as the saung-gauk, Burmese harp, or Burma harp. An arched harp used in traditional Burmese music

Llywelyn Banqueting
LLYWELYN THE GREAT after a banquet, he listens as a bard with a harp tells of old forgotten far-off things and battles long ago. Date: ? - 1240

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

Minstrels sing stories of heroes
Minstrels sang of the famous deeds of heroes. A medieval minstrel with a celtic harp sings stories to a rapt audience of men, women and children

Tours and Excursions in the Emerald Isle, with Cooks
Cover illustration for Tours and Excursions in the Emerald Isle (Ireland), with Thomas Cook & Son of Dublin, Belfast and London

Tours & Excursions, Emerald Isle
A montage of Irish scenes and landmarks, including the Giants Causeway, Connemara, Killarney, Rostrevor, and a lady playing a harp

Condolences Card
A rather bizarre condolences card - part of a Mourning Series ! An Angel is shown plucking at an angelic harp before a large silver cross and the bright rays of the sun as doves fly by

Blind Sudanese Dancer and Harpist
A blind Sudanese Dancer with a thin stick performs to the music of a younger musician with a hand-held harp

Ireland - Greetings Card
A greeting card from Ireland (interestingly depicted as one country)

An Andean Harpist with his harp
The harp migrated from Europe to Mexico and South America with the Conquistadores and Missionaries. The South Americans adapted it and it sometimes called the Highland Harp

Garter banner of Queen Mary
The garter banner of Queen Mary, made at the Royal School of Art Needlework (now the Royal School of Needlework) in South Kensington, London

Garter banner of King George V
The garter banner of King George V, made at the Royal School of Art Needlework (now the Royal School of Needlework) in South Kensington, London

Izmir, Turkey - Customs House and Warehouses
Barges and quayside with a passing camel train, alongside the Customs House and Warehouses at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Burns / Lament for James
LAMENT FOR JAMES, EARL OF GLENCAIRN Beneath a craigy steep a Bard, Laden with years and meikle pain, In loud lament bewail d his lord

Greek harp player
Lady in the costume of a classical Greek harp player

Lear / Nonsense / Chin / Pin
There was a Young Lady whose chin, resembled the point of a pin; So she had it made sharp, and purchased a harp, and played several tunes with her chin

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