Lyre Collection (page 4)

Cetera or cither.. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J. Hipkins Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique, Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1888

Music and dance of the 8th or 9th century.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834

Vignettes of cupids or genii.. Vignettes of cupids or genii. Above, a painting found in Resina in 1748 depicting the Genii of Apollo

Centauress carrying a young man, playing the lyre and cymbals.. Painting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749

Centaur carrying a youth and teaching him to play the lyre.. Painting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749

The centaur Chiron teaching Achilles to play the Cetera or lyre.. The centaur Chiron, wearing an animal skin and a wreath of flowers (Centaurus-)

Giovanni Battista Doni, Italian musicologist
Giovanni Battista Doni (1594-1647), Italian musicologist who studied ancient music. He changed the name of the tonic note Ut, renaming it Do after his own family name. Seen here at the age of 50

Alexandre Lenoir 2
ALEXANDRE LENOIR French archeologist, with ancient carvings to prove it, and a lyre (?) and palette as evidence of his artistic talents. Date: 1762 - 1839

Eliz. Ctess. Harrington
ELIZABETH countess of HARRINGTON (nee Green) wife of Leicester Stanhope, fifth earl : she is depicted romantically strumming her lyre by moonlight. Date: ? - 1898

Old soak yokel in smock claiming not to have been drinking
The Squire Daughter - " Jerry, a little bird told me you had to much to drink yesterday!" Jerry - " Wel, my lady

LYRE, Nicol᳠de (1270-1340). Theologian. Plan
" LYRE, Nicol᳠ de (1270-1340). Theologian. Plan and description of the Temple of Jerusalem. Illustration of an edition of his " Postillae per-petuae in universam S

LYRE, Nicol᳠de (1270-1340). Theologian. God
" LYRE, Nicol᳠ de (1270-1340). Theologian. God sitting on Throne. Illustration of an edition of his " Postillae per-petuae in universam S. Scripturam" (14th c.). Gothic art

LYRE, Nicol᳠de (1270-1340). Theologian. Lesson
LYRE, Nicol᳠ de (1270-1340). Theologian. Lesson

SCHMIDT, Johan Heinrich (1749-1829). Portrait of Isabella Angela Colbran. 1817. Portrait playing the lyre. Neoclassicism. Oil on canvas. ITALY. Milan. La Scala Theatre Museum

Mozart Payne Statue
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART a commemorative statue to the Austrian composer Date: 1756 - 1791

Drawing of Erato, Muse of Song and Poetry
A drawing of Erato, the Muse of Lyric Song and Poetry in Greek mythology, from a statue in the British Museum. By Ellen Philadelphia Smyth (1828-1881), an aunt of Robert Baden Powell. circa 1850s

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

Time, gentlement, please! - anti-jazz music, 1913
The personification of Time drops her lyre in horror and covers her ears against the latest American import: Jazz. Date: 1913

Variety Theatre, Mademoiselle Nadgi
Mademoiselle Nadgi, music Hall entertainer, sitting with a lyre

Ernest d Hervilly / Gill
Ernest d Hervilly (1839-1911) Poet, novelist and dramatist

Etienne Carjat / Gill
Etienne Carjat (1828-1906): famous cartoonist, journalist, poet and photographer

Lear / Nonsense / Tyre / Lyre
There was a Young Lady of Tyre, who swept the loud chords of a lyre; at the sound of each sweep, she enraptured the deep, and enchanted the city of Tyre

Tresures from Ur
A restoration of a royal lyre from Ur, decorated with a gold head of a beared bull. Excavated by Leonard Wooley at Ur

Clovis Hugues / Hommes Auj
CLOVIS HUGUES French writer and radical politician

Aem Gretry / Joly / Elysium
ANDRE-ERNEST-MODESTE GRETRY French composer arriving in the Elysian Fields

Voltaire Walker
FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET a celebratory portrait of the French writer and philosopher

Voltaire Oval Frame
FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET the French writer and philosopher

Muse / Erato
the Muse of Lyric Song and Poetry

Muse / Terpsichore
THE MUSE OF DANCE

Edgeworth / Mackenzie
MARIA EDGEWORTH Novelist, best known for Castle Rackrent

Vesta Victoria / Variety
VESTA VICTORIA Music hall comedienne and singer, singing Its all right in the summer-time

Penelopes Suitors
At Ithaca, in the absence of Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelopes bored Suitors get drunk, while a minstrel plays his lyre to them. Telemachus, Odysseus son, watches with disapproval

Caricature of Paul Verlaine, French poet
Paul Verlaine, French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. Seen here in a caricature, with the word Anarchy written across his forehead, playing a lyre, with an arrow stuck through a heart

Aristotle / Laplante
ARISTOTLE Greek philosopher as a young man, reading at his desk

Anacreon / Statue / Rome
ANACREON Greek poet, who wrote particularly in praise of love and wine

Sappho / Cazenove / Oval
SAPPHO Greek lyric poet from Lesbos

Edgar Quinet / Gill 1874
EDGAR QUINET French writer and politician

Clovis Hugues / Moloch 82
CLOVIS HUGUES French writer

Swan Etc Star Map
Lizard, swan, lyre, fox and goose star constellation

Terentius / Terence / 1822
PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER known as TERENCE Roman playwright, born in Carthage

Roman Musical Trio
Three Romans make music - one playing the double-pipe or flute, another a lyre-like instrument plucked with a plectrum, the third may be a singer or simply a teacher

Ancient Greek Trio
A string trio in classical Greece - the player on the left strums the sambuca, the central one the cithara, she on the right plucks a lyre

Victor Hugo / Gill Globe
VICTOR HUGO French writer, sitting on top of the world

Apollo Flays Marsyas
Lyre-player Apollo is challenged to a musical duel by flute-player Marsyas; when he wins (by a nasty trick) he flays his presumptuous rival alive

Voltaire Couche / Lejeune
FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET idealised depiction of the translation of Voltaires body to the Pantheon in Paris on 11 July 1791: he has become a Hero of the Revolution

Voltaire Belt Design
FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET idealised depiction of the translation of Voltaires body to the Pantheon in Paris on 11 July 1791: he has become a Hero of the Revolution

Hyginus / Lyra
LYRA the lyre

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