Minstrel Collection

Senegal - Griot playing a Kora
Senegal - seated Griot playing a Kora, a 21-stringed harp lute that originated in the Gambia River valley with the Mandinko but is one of the most popular instruments in Senegal

Paddy the Piper
An itinerant Irish piper sitting at the roadside, playing his full set of uilleann pipes. Date: circa 1904

Black and white minstrels
A fashion shoot featuring the Black & White Minstrels in Tatler, 1962. The outfit worn by the model in the middle is a white silk, two-piece

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

The Song to the Moon - Kay Nielsen
The Song to the Moon - The Art of Kay Nielsen. Date: 1913

Comic postcard, Plump woman and minstrel at the seaside Date: 20th century

A Bard singing to Ancient Britons
A Bard singing his poetry for the Britons around the campfire. These soldiers would be fighting their rivals in battle the next day... Date: circa 43 AD

Dr White Eyes Littlehampton Royal Court Minstrels
Dr White Eyes Littlehampton Royal Court Black Diamond Minstrels - Minstrel Troupe comprising Dr White Eyes himself in academic robes and holding a banjo (one eye white, one black), two jovial ladies

GEORGE H CHIRGWIN/HALLS
GEORGE H CHIRGWIN Music hall entertainer, known as the White-Eyed Musical Moke or the White- Eyed Kaffir Date: 1854 - 1922

When Love was Lost and Life was Vain: Pierrot Forlorn. In the Autumn of Youth: " Fallen Leaves". Date: 1912

Costumes and armour of German knights, 13th century
Costumes of German knights in battle A, B, and allegorical illustration of Venus ordering blacksmith Vulcan to make a helmet for Aeneas C, 1260-1300. Helmets with heraldic crests D-G

The good-humoured crowd at the London Hippodrome
Street entertainers amuse the crowds waiting outside the London Hippodrome. Date: 1901

Cartoon, E W Mackney, Ethiopian entertainer (blackface minstrel). 1880s

Pish Tush, run him off - The Story of the Mikado by Ws Gilbert. 1921

I claim my perjured lover, Nanki Poo - The Story of the Mikado by Ws Gilbert. 1921

He saw Yum-Yum enter the garden - The Story of the Mikado by Ws Gilbert. 1921

Alas, my poor little bride that was to be - The Story of the Mikado by Ws Gilbert. 1921

February, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

European Queen and minstrel in costume. Date: circa 750

Music cover, The Lily of Laguna sung by Eugene Stratton
Music cover, The Lily of Laguna, written and composed by Leslie Stuart, sung by Eugene Stratton. 1898

FALL / K. C. SPANIEL / 1963
CHAMPION TUDOR MINSTREL OF ST. LUCIA Owned by Mrs Gristwood. Colour: black and tan. Date: 1963

Elizabethan Minstrels outside a Tavern Date: circa 1600

Nomad musician, Jaipur
Nomadic musician squats at a ceramics shop in Jaipur, India. Over his shoulder he carries an Ektara, a single string gourd musical instrument

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

Street Minstrel, Tangier, Morocco, playing a local three-stringed guitar-type instrument. known as a Gimbri. Date: 1929

Troubadour

Senegal - Griot playing a Xalam
A Griot Xalam Player - Senegal. The most common stringed instrument in Senegal. Griots of many ethnic groups play it, including the Wolof, Sereer, Mandinko, Malinke, Fulbe, and Tukuloor

Miniature with Francesco Petrarca, Laura de Noves and a minstrel (14th c.). Miniature Painting

Blankenberghe, Belgium - a beach troubador, thoroughly entertaining a group of children in their bathing costumes

Minstrel playing a mandolin on a comic greetings card
Minstrel playing a mandolin and singing on a comic greetings card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

French Costumes 1460-80
Men: shallow caps with upturned brims, jackets with pleats & doublets. Women: gown with fur borders, V -neck with revers, kirtle, hood-like headdress, hood with liripipe. Date: 1460 - 1480

Minstrel with a banjo
I m crezy bout you baby. Black minstrel strumming his banjo.Date: circa 1910

A Niam-Niam wandering minstrel, 1876. Date: 1876

Victorian reconstruction of medieval music making
Musicians stroll passed a medieval wall garden, in this Victorian reconstruction. Date: 1685

Com. Dell arte Trivelino
Trivelino, playing the mandolin

Dick Whittington. Bookmark advertising The Kings Theatre
Dick Whittington. A souvenir bookmark advertising the pantomime at the Kings Theatre in Hammersmith. The clown, who slides up and down, was part of the old pantomime tradition

The Tatler Christmas number cover by John Hassall
Front cover of The Tatler, Christmas Number 1935 featuring a medieval minstrel playing some form of string instrument - a lute? Date: 1935

A wandering street Minstrel, Kathmandu, Nepal. Date: circa 1950s

Troubadours singing and reciting a poem, written in Occitan. 12th and 13th centuries. Colored engraving

Minstrel reciting poems and songs. Germany
Germany. Minstrel reciting poems and songs at the foot of a lime tree in the village square. Colored engraving of Germania, 1882

James Beattie, Writer 2
JAMES BEATTIE Scottish poet ( The minstrel ) of no great merit, and moral philosopher (of even less); sadly, his wife went mad. Date: 1735 - 1803

James Beattie, Writer
JAMES BEATTIE Scottish poet ( The minstrel ) of no great merit, and moral philosopher (of even less); his wife went mad. Date: 1735 - 1803

James Beattie, Writer 3
JAMES BEATTIE Scottish poet ( The minstrel ) of no great merit, and moral philosopher (of even less); sad to say, his wife went mad. Date: 1735 - 1803

King, Soldier, Minstrel
King: mantle with embroidered border, tunic & leg bandages. Soldier: tunic, chainmail shirt & cape, trousers, boots. Minstrel: tunic & girdle, trousers & leg bandages. Date: 8th century

Adenez Le Roi
ADENEZ LE ROI French trouvere Date: 1240? - 1300?

Ma Sunbeam Girl
Traditional song with music. Image depicting a black minstrel playing a banjo. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1904

Colmans Christmas Greetings to their Young Friends - Herald
J. & J. Colmans Christmas Greetings to their Young Friends All Around the World - A youthful Medievalo Herald announces the gift of this collection of fun historical tales and illustrations

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