Musician Collection (page 8)

Medieval dancers and performers
Girl dancing on the shoulders of a bagpiper, 13th century, man playing a pipe while dancing on stilts, 13th century (top), tumbler preparing to leap through a hoop held by two others

Medieval men inflating pig bladders, playing
Medieval men inflating pig bladders (for bagpipes?), playing mandolins and pipes. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse), Librairie Hachette

A triumphal carriage with female reapers holding scythes
A triumphal carriage decorated with fruit and flowers from the harvest accompanied by female reapers (Schnitterinnen) holding scythes. A woman with a bushel of wheat sits on a throne

Twenty masked musicians and dancers emerge
Twenty masked and costumed musicians and dancers emerge from four monstrous heads. Dance of the Nations, part of the celebrations of the birth of Freiderich, Duke of Wurttemberg, 1616

Australian aboriginal with a shield used as percussion instrument during a corroboree dance. Musician of New Holland. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature

Street entertainer performing on a horn and violin. After removing his huge glasses from his nose, the old geezer blows on his horn (sarbacane) and plays the violin, grimacing all the time

Troubadour playing on six instruments, 1815
Troubadour playing on six instruments in front of Prussian and Scots soldiers, 1815. By moving his head, elbows and knees, he plays pan pipes, mandolin, drum, triangle

An organ grinder and a poodle with spinning machine before an audience of fashionable women in bonnets with plumes, shawls and lace dresses

Tatar musicians in a Crimean town square, mid 19th century
Tatar musicians playing fiddle and balalaika in a Crimean town square, men smoking pipes and drinking tea. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857

Piper of a Highland Regiment, 17th century, in kilt, hose, jacket and bonnet, with bagpipes, sporran and claymore. Copperplate engraving from Francis Groses Military Antiquities respecting a History

Audience with the Sultan of Bornu, Kanem-Bornu
Audience with the Sultan of Bornu, 19th century. Visitors sit 100 paces away from the sultan who views them from inside a bamboo cage

Indian dancing boys or balak dancers with musicians in a ceremony called Jhulan Yatra. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrarios

Indian musicians with musical instruments. Man playing bell and conch shell, sankh and ghanta, bansi flutist, surmandal player, dholak drummer, kartal cymbalist, dhak drummer, and jagajhampa drummer

Musicians playing ancient Greek lyres, zither and tibia
Types of Greek lyres 1-5, 9, woman playing kithara or zither 6, 7, and man playing aulos or tibia from ancient Greek vases

Chinese men playing the game of go. A musician with gong, man with pigtail, and peasant in straw hat play the board game go, while a farmer with hoe and musician with flute watch

Ancient Egyptian musical instruments. Musicians in loose tunics playing harps, theorbo, horn, sistrum and tambourine. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrarios

Wedding ceremony among the natives of Ndor (Saint-Louis), Senegal. Griot leading the veiled bride while guests dance in the background

Chinese mountebank riding a boat on land, Qing Dynasty
Chinese mountebank riding a boat on land accompanied by a musician playing a recorder, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Female musician playing chimes and gongs, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin

French musician playing the musette de cour or bagpipes, 15th century. He wears a pink justaucorps tunic with capuchon hood and green pantalon

San or Bushman musician playing a gorah or lesiba, a string-wind instrument. Copied from William John Burchells Travels in the Interior of South Africa

Musical Italian children. 1923

Ernest Shand, English performer and composer
Ernest Shand (1868-1924), English performer and composer, classical guitar player, music hall singer, actor. circa 1900s

Drayson Marsh and his Dance Band. 1939

Street scene, Memorial Day in Nome, Alaska, USA, parade with brass band, 30 May 1907. Date: 1907

Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor
Pietro Mascagni, Italian opera composer and conductor. 1893

Artwork by Florence Auerbach, boy playing cello
Artwork by Florence Auerbach, boy in a medieval tunic playing a cello. Date: late 19th century

Artwork by Florence Auerbach, boy playing violin
Artwork by Florence Auerbach, boy in a medieval tunic playing a violin. Date: late 19th century

C W Griggs MBE, Bandmaster, Borough of Worthing, Sussex
C W Griggs MBE, Bandmaster, Queens Own Cameron Highlanders, Parade Bandstand, Borough of Worthing, Sussex. Date: circa 1908

Cartoon, A Little Music. 1870

61st Lower Rhenish Classical Music Festival, Dusseldorf, Germany - portraits include Johannes Brahms and Julius Tausch. 1884

Chinese Tambourine Musician. 19th century

R A Lister Military Band, Roman Baths, Bath. Date: 1935

Church Parade, All Saints Church, Aldershot, Hampshire
Church Parade, Royal Garrison Church of All Saints, Aldershot, Hampshire, with a military band marching and playing. Date: circa 1910s

Beaconsfield Concert Company, South Africa, 1903
Group photo, Beaconsfield Concert Company, South Africa. Date: 1903

German men in costume - a flag bearer, a flautist and a satirical singer. Date: 1570

Tatler cover Party Time 1961
Front cover of The Tatler from December 1961 featuring a woman utterly absorbed in playing the drums. Date: 1961

Two Lady Brass Musicians and a variety of their instruments including trombones, a euphonium, a normal trumpet and a piccolo trumpet. Date: circa 1900s

Musician with large drum, Tahiti, French Polynesia. He is wearing traditional native costume, while the drum is a modern French military instrument. Date: 1922

Musicians seated on barrels, Brittany, Northern France
Two musicians seated on top of barrels, Brittany, Northern France. They are playing the native bagpipe or biniou (right) and a flageolet (left). 1922

Two musician dancers of Cambodia, South East Asia (then a French Protectorate). 1922

Bantu musicians with gourd piano, Central Africa
Two Bantu musicians playing a gourd piano looking rather like a curved xylophone, Central Africa. Date: 1922

King of Yarawa dancing, Fedderi, West Africa
King of Yarawa dancing in a Hausa robe at Fedderi, West Africa (then part of the British Empire), with musicians alongside him. The dance was apparently performed in honour of the photographer

Musicians of Bornu, Yola Province, Nigeria, West Africa
Musicians of Bornu, Yola Province, northern Nigeria, West Africa. One blows a trumpet while the other accompanies him on a drum. 1922

Indigenous musician, Brazil, playing pan pipes and wearing many beads. Date: 1922

Trumpeter of the Mangbetu, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
Trumpeter of the Mangbettu (Mangbetu) court, holding his carved horn modelled from an ivory tusk, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. Date: 1922

Musician with guitar, Algeria, North Africa. Date: 1922

Choirboys and musicians on a Christmas card -- Nowell we sing, gladness to bring. Date: circa 1880s

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