Lute Collection (page 4)

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

Sarah Bernhardt in Le Passant - playing a Lute
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in Le Passant (play by Coppee) - playing a Lute. Date: circa 1895

Unusual woman playing a small stringed instrument
Slightly unusual postcard showing a woman with long dark flowing locks strumming away at a small lute. A slightly deranged gaze to boot... Date: 1907

East African Jewish Bedouin Musician in Jerusalem, Israel. Playing a masenqo, a single-stringed bowed lute commonly found in the musical traditions of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Date: circa 1920s

A wandering Pierrot Minstrel with his black cat. Date: 1892

Lute - In general use throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, but its origin can be traced back to to about 1000 BC. The instrument illustrated is Italian

Minstrel playing his lute as he wanders along 15th Century

Angel Musician
Melozzo da Forli (1438-1494). Angel Musician. 15th Century Fresco

Honthorst, Gerrit Van, Also
Honthorst, Gerrit van, also called Gherardo Della Notte (1590-1656). Supper with the Minstrel and his Lute. Work

Robin Hood resting in a tree

Tale of the heike and a lute next to a standing screen. Print shows a lute, the Tale of Keike, an article of clothing, and a painted screen with natural scene of bushes and mountains

The Lute Player by Judith Leyster
A man playing a lute, 17th century. Date: 1939

The Sphere Christmas Number 1939
Front cover of The Sphere Christmas Number featuring a Dutch painting by Terborch of two ladies singing and playing a lute. A servant boy brings in a tray. Decoration by Harold Nelson. Date: 1939

The concert, showing a group of players by Gerald de Honthor
A group of musicians with a lady playing a lute, 17th century. Date: 1939

Adenes le Roi, French troubadour
Adenes le Roi(c. 1240-c. 1300), French trouvere, performs to an audience of medieval ladies out of doors Date: 13th century

Doorstep serenade: the merchants ward
A man serenades an unseen figure

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

Good Housekeeping front cover, December 1931
Front cover of Good Housekeeping magazine with three angelic carol singers dressed in medieval hooded robes. One plays a lute while they all sing from a song sheet

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

Music in the Elizabethan home
Part singing during the reign of Elizabeth I. Date: 16th century

Music by King Charles I
Music and lyrics by King Charles I entitled Mark How The Blushful Morn accompanied by a stylised illustration depicting the King playing the cello while seated on the throne

Music by King Henry VIII
Music and lyrics written by King Henry VIII entitled Passetyme with Goode Company (The Kynges Balade) accompanied by a stylised illustration showing The King conducting a group of musicians

My Ladye Faire -- a fine lady is serenaded by a man with a lute or mandolin. 20th century

Moorish Dancer in traditional costume, Algeria

Turkish musician playing traditional instrument
Turkish musician playing traditional stringed instrument

Just a song at twilight by Florence Hardy
An elegant gentleman serenades a lady who sits in her chair and listens politely

Sing me an English Song by Florence Hardy
An elegant 18th century couple sit together on a sofa. A gentleman in a frock coat and wig listens intently while his lady companion plays the lute

Loves Melody by Florence Hardy
An 18th century couple sit on an elegant sofa. The man plays a romantic serenade on his lute while his companion listens politely

Children dancing
A group of five children wearing matching lilac spring time outfits dance, skip and play musical instruments

Sleeping Beauty / (Crane)
-At last he came to the tower and opened the door of the little room where Rosamond lay

Thibaut De Champagne
THIBAUT II, comte de CHAMPAGNE et de BLOIS French nobleman, soldier who liked to strum the lute Date: 1090 - 1152

Rizzio Plays Lute
DAVID RIZZIO Italian musician. Favourite & foreign secretary of Mary Queen of Scots. He arranged her marriage with Darnley

Fool Selling his Wisdom
THE FOOL SELLING WISDOM A crowd, including someone carried in a sedan chair, gathers round a lute-playing man

Samisen, Kokiu, Biwa
Three stringed instruments : the SAMISEN (three strings, played with a plectrum); the KOKIU, like a small samisen but played with a bow; the BIWA, a lute-like instrument

Tarantella / Italy
A couple dance the Tarantella accompanied by a lute and tambourines underneath a shady roof of vines

Musical Mousers
The sudden appearance of a mouse causes the lute-player and the fiddler to desert their companions in mid- concert

Wagner / Kladderadatsch
RICHARD WAGNER Reconciled with rival German composer Brahms, in heaven Date: 1813 - 1883

Bernhardt / Minstrel Boy
SARAH BERNHARDT French actress as a minstrel boy playing a lute

Celine Celeste / Arab Boy
CELINE CELESTE Actress and dancer, seen here in the role of the Wild Arab Boy in The French Spy

Late 16th Century Woman
A young lady of the Elizabethan period, playing her lute

German Musicians 1520
A group of German musicians perform on a wide variety of instruments to provide music for dancers : lute, bagpipes, clarinet, trombone, flute, drum, monochord are featured

1629 Lute Player
A page from the French royal court plays the lute, dressed in the picturesque attire of the day and armed with a huge and unwieldy sword

Music in a Garden
A Dutchman and his lady friend make sweet music together - she lays down her viol while he plays the lute, and he has other instruments with which to entertain her

Masked Lute-Player
A masked performer plays the lute

Indian Music Instruments
Three types of Indian musical instrument - one like a lute, another like a harp, the third like a tambourine

Japan - the Biwa
A Japanese musician plays the BIWA, which resembles the western lute

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