Reciting Collection

Homer / Phillipoteaux
HOMER Blind Greek poet singing to sailors

SCHILLER RECITING
SCHILLER AND HIS FRIENDS (1750 - 1805), The poet recites Die Rauber to a group of admiring friends, 1780

Albert Craig, the so-called Surrey Poet (1859-1909) a popular character who composed poems which he recited at football and cricket matches, afterwards selling printed sheets of his verse to crowd

Albanian Soldier and Rhapsodos (Rhapsode or Bard, performer of epic poetry). 1832

National Temperance League 1858
Rev. Robert Maguire preaching the Gospel in front of the Clerkenwell Sessions House on Clerkenwell Green, London. Date: 1858

Germanic bards. Colored engraving
Bard. Among the ancient Celts, a poet who composed panegyrics and songs of war, but then went on to describe the heroic or lyric poet of any age or country. Germanic bards. Colored engraving

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

Spervogel, poet of the 12th century, offers his lyrics to the Court. Codex Manesse (ca.1300) by Rudiger Manesse and his son Johannes. University of Heidelberg. Library. Germany

Jacques Delille - 5
Abbe JACQUES DELILLE French writer, Academician - this painting was made while Delille was reciting his verses, you may be interested to know. Date: 1738 - 1813

Reading Alound / Venice
Fellice Ballarin reciting Tasso to the people of Chioggia, a seaport in Venice, which used to be known in ancient times as Fossa Claudia. Date: circa 1885

18Thc Frnc / Abbe Delille
The Abbe Delille reciting verse to attentive aristocratic ladies Date: 18th century

Girls singing or reciting in school, c. 1800
Girls singing or reciting in school or Sunday school, with a teacher, c.1800 Date: C.1800

Patriotism at the Halls, WW1
Sketches by Tony Sarg showing performers at various London shows singing patriotic songs shortly after the outbreak of the First World War

The hunchback story-teller of Damascus. Reciting in a Coffee

Mary E Webb reading Uncle Toms Cabin
Mrs Mary E Webb (a coloured native of Philadelphia), reading Uncle Toms Cabin in the hall of Stafford House, London, home of the Duchess of Sutherland. Date: 1856

Constantinople - Turkish religious scholar, reading the Koran, seated on a fine carpet

Four Mevlevi Musicians
Four Mevlevi musicians including three Ney (wind instrument) players. The ney is featured on Egyptian pyramid wall paintings of 3000BC

Boy / Norfolk Jacket 1893
English schoolboy wears a knickerbocker suit with Norfolk jacket, white shirt with turned down collar, woollen socks & stout laced boots. Date: 1893

Reciting Kaddish
Reciting the KADDISH, a daily prayer of thanksgiving, in the London synagogue

Zoroastrian High Priest
The High Priest of the Gaures or Zoroastrians, the remants of the ancient fire worshippers of Persia, reciting from his ritual before the sacred fire

Shakespeare / Jubilee / 1769
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Playwright and poet. Mr Garrick reciting the Ode in honour of Shakespeare at the Jubilee in Stratford

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