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Sings Collection

Background imageSings Collection: A Dachshund choir has a dress rehearsal

A Dachshund choir has a dress rehearsal
Dress Rehearsal - A Dachshund choir is put through its paces... Date: 1911

Background imageSings Collection: A blackbird sings whilst perched on a branch

A blackbird sings whilst perched on a branch 2011

Background imageSings Collection: Lis / Fat Lady Sings

Lis / Fat Lady Sings
It isn t over.. til the fat lady sings. A female singer sings a song

Background imageSings Collection: Bunny and Child

Bunny and Child
A bunny dances with a child in a bunny costume, while coloured eggs lie on the grass and a robin sings on the bare branches of a silver birch

Background imageSings Collection: Alice / Hatter Sings

Alice / Hatter Sings
The Hatter sings

Background imageSings Collection: Persian musicians

Persian musicians
Three seated Persian musicians, playing a hand drum, what looks like a daf and a kamanche. A tonbak, or goblet drum, lies discarded on the ground. Date: 1870s

Background imageSings Collection: Saturday Night at Sea

Saturday Night at Sea
Saturday night at sea - the seamen, off duty, listen as one of their number sings a stirring sea-shanty

Background imageSings Collection: Street music: a family of singers

Street music: a family of singers
A pathetic scene: an impoverished family of street singers, shoeless and ragged, singing in the rain. Date: 1870

Background imageSings Collection: SIREN SONG

SIREN SONG
The Siren sings her song, luring sailors to destruction

Background imageSings Collection: Mr Albert Chevaliers Recitals

Mr Albert Chevaliers Recitals
This postcard titled Mr Albert Chevaliers Recitals shows the many characters Albert Chevalier played. As the coster, fourth from right in the front row, he sang his famous coster songs

Background imageSings Collection: A lady sings to an audience for a charitable cause. Date: 1933

A lady sings to an audience for a charitable cause. Date: 1933

Background imageSings Collection: Silhouette - Postcard Design

Silhouette - Postcard Design
Romantic scene. Formally dressed young couple in their drawing room. The lady sings, whilst the gentleman accompanies her on a grand piano. Date: 1920s

Background imageSings Collection: A jackdaw sings on the back of a ram

A jackdaw sings on the back of a ram. A shepherd and a boy run toward them, as other rams lie in the grass near a rock. Jackdaw and ram. Illustration of Aesop's fable the sheep and the crow

Background imageSings Collection: Elisabeth Welch sings Charleston in Runnin Wild at the Co

Elisabeth Welch sings Charleston in Runnin Wild at the Colonial Theatre (New York). Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) African American singer & actress who settled in London in 1933

Background imageSings Collection: Elisabeth Welch sings to Griffith Jones & Ann Dvorak

Elisabeth Welch sings to Griffith Jones & Ann Dvorak in the film This Was Paris. Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) African American singer & actress who settled in London in 1933

Background imageSings Collection: Nightingale

Nightingale Date: circa 1910s

Background imageSings Collection: Robin singing in the woods

Robin singing in the woods Date: circa 1910s

Background imageSings Collection: Louis Wain Cat - It's a Long Way to Tipperary

Louis Wain Cat - It's a Long Way to Tipperary
A patriotic feline, bedecked in the Union flag striding off to war singing It's a long way to Tipperary'. Date: circa 1916

Background imageSings Collection: Ariel

Ariel
This painting depicts Ariel, the spirit character from Shakespeare's The Tempest

Background imageSings Collection: Music cover, The Coffee Song, Frank Sinatra

Music cover, The Coffee Song, Frank Sinatra
Music cover, The Coffee Song (They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil), by Bob Hilliard and Dick Miles, sung by Frank Sinatra Date: 1946

Background imageSings Collection: Music cover, Going My Way, Bing Crosby

Music cover, Going My Way, Bing Crosby
Music cover, Going My Way, words by Johnny Burke, music by Jimmy Van Heusen, sung by Bing Crosby in the Paramount film Going My Way Date: 1944

Background imageSings Collection: Music cover, When Mother Nature Sings Her Lullaby

Music cover, When Mother Nature Sings Her Lullaby, by Larry Yoell and Glenn Brown, featured and broadcast by by Jack White and his Collegians. Date: 1938

Background imageSings Collection: Protesters at the South African embassy

Protesters at the South African embassy
Demonstrators from Lawyers Against Apartheid picketing outside the South African embassy in Trafalgar Square to protest against sixteen years of martial law in Namibia

Background imageSings Collection: VICAR WAKEFIELD/RACKHAM

VICAR WAKEFIELD/RACKHAM
Bill sings the Elegy on the death of a mad dog, accompanied by the guitar. Date: First published: 1766

Background imageSings Collection: OFFENBACH/HOFFMANN/TAICH

OFFENBACH/HOFFMANN/TAICH
(The Tales of Hoffmann) The evil Dr Miracle encourages Antonia to sing though it is bad for her health : unable to resist him, she sings till she dies exhausted. Date: first performed 1881

Background imageSings Collection: MEISTERSINGER LIEBIG 2

MEISTERSINGER LIEBIG 2
First act : Walther sings his song but it is not well received by the judges Date: first performed 1868

Background imageSings Collection: Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a lovers on a sofa

Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a lovers on a sofa
Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a man and woman flirting on a sofa. Death and the Lovers

Background imageSings Collection: THE THREE ROBES

THE THREE ROBES
Blauvor and Lanfor on the island. One plays the harp, the other sings. A stranger approaches... (An Irish tale)

Background imageSings Collection: SINGER ON STAGE / 1911

SINGER ON STAGE / 1911
A lady wearing a yellow dress sings on stage in a French music hall. Date: 1911

Background imageSings Collection: Marriageable man

Marriageable man
The Marriageable Man - one daughter sings, another sighs, while their mother hovers over her prey to make sure this eligible suitor is firmly hooked to one or the other Date: 1842

Background imageSings Collection: Street harpist and singers 1842

Street harpist and singers 1842
Two street singers - one sings, his accompanist plays the harp Date: 1842

Background imageSings Collection: Organ Grinder

Organ Grinder
London characters: the ORGAN GRINDER and his monkey come from Italy, and the songs he sings in our fog-grey streets are warm with nostalgia for their sunny homeland. Date: circa 1870

Background imageSings Collection: New Orleans. French Quarter. Spanish Street Name Tile Murals

New Orleans. French Quarter. Spanish Street Name Tile Murals
New Orleans. French Quarter. When New Orleans was Capital of the Spanish Province of Luisiana 1762-1803. Spanish Street Name Tile Murals. Maine Street. State of Louisiana. USA

Background imageSings Collection: The nursery rhyme, Little Tommy Tucker

The nursery rhyme, Little Tommy Tucker
Little Tommy Tucker sings for this supper; what shall we give him? White bread and butter. How will he cut it without eer a knife? How can he marry without eer a wife? Date: c. 1930

Background imageSings Collection: Tetouan - Street Beggar

Tetouan - Street Beggar
" One can admire the stubborn insistence of the Maghreb" - a pleading Tetouan street beggar holding out his bowl and asking for alms. Date: 1930s

Background imageSings Collection: Piano Player - Brighton Beach, England

Piano Player - Brighton Beach, England
Piano Player on Brighton Beach, England. A lady singer stands in front of an upright piano piano (perched rather precariously on some boards on the shingle), belting out a popular hit of the day

Background imageSings Collection: Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be blind and wet

Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be blind and wet
Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be a blind beggar singing for your supper/lodging in the rain... Date: circa 1904

Background imageSings Collection: German bard sings in medieval hall

German bard sings in medieval hall
A German bard plays his harp in a smokey medieval hall. Date: Medieval

Background imageSings Collection: Royal wedding 1893 - celebrations at Inverness

Royal wedding 1893 - celebrations at Inverness
A large crowd of loyal citizens sing God Save the Queen in celebration of the marriage of George Duke of York(later King George V)(1865-1936) to Princess May of Teck(later the Duchess of York)

Background imageSings Collection: At the Christmas service by Charles Robinson

At the Christmas service by Charles Robinson
Scene showing children singing At the Christmas Service. This image has a strange cartoon like style which differs from the other illustrations. Date: 1906

Background imageSings Collection: Albert Chevalier

Albert Chevalier (21 March 1861 10 July 1923) was an English, music hall comedian, singer and musical theatre actor

Background imageSings Collection: Nursery Rhymes - Stranger sings

Nursery Rhymes - Stranger sings
Stranger sings - Man in formal clothes standing and singing. Part of Box 52 Boswell collection. Nursery Rhymes. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSings Collection: Spain. Altar server singing. Essay. Engraving, 1886. Colored

Spain. Altar server singing. Essay. Engraving, 1886. Colored
Spain. Altar server singing. Essay. Engraving by Perez. Painting by Arcadio Mas y Fondevilla. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana. 1886. Colored

Background imageSings Collection: Paris Salon D auto

Paris Salon D auto
A smooth salesman sings the praises of his companys new model at the Salon d Auto, Paris. Date: 1933

Background imageSings Collection: St Cecilia / Fry / Mignard

St Cecilia / Fry / Mignard
SAINT CECILIA Roman saint and martyr, patron saint of musicians, playing a harp while a cherub sings from a score Date: 2nd - 3rd century

Background imageSings Collection: FREE & EASY EDINBURGH

FREE & EASY EDINBURGH
A man sings very heartily as everyone sits listening attentively, at an Edinburgh working mens Free and easy. Date: 1883

Background imageSings Collection: Cherub with envelope on a greetings card

Cherub with envelope on a greetings card
Cherub with his head through an envelope on a greetings card. circa 1890s

Background imageSings Collection: The opera Tannhauser

The opera Tannhauser
The troubadour Tannhauser sings to Venus the goddess of beauty, of the ecsatsy of love. Artist: Alan Wright Date: 1912

Background imageSings Collection: Hazel Hen / Hazel Grouse - adult male sings defending

Hazel Hen / Hazel Grouse - adult male sings defending his breeding territory (Tetrastes bonasia)

Background imageSings Collection: Traditional carol singers

Traditional carol singers
A group of Victorian carollers stand outside a large house at Christmas singing carols. Date: circa 1906

Background imageSings Collection: Man at the end of his tether with piano-playing singing wife

Man at the end of his tether with piano-playing singing wife
" Every Morning I feel like shooting." An American man seemingly at the end of his tether with the less-than-tuneful efforts of his enthusiastic piano-playing, singing wife

Background imageSings Collection: WW2 - Comic Postcard - Oh What a Beautiful Morning

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Oh What a Beautiful Morning
Oh What a Beautiful Morning! A young girl joins a songbird in a refrain, maintaining an entirely positive mood in a time of war Date: circa 1942

Background imageSings Collection: Fishermen - A Happy Corner

Fishermen - A Happy Corner
A Happy Old Salt playing the accordion to a young child, whilst a younger sailor sits with a model sailing ship. Another fisherman and his wife and an elderly nanny complete the scene

Background imageSings Collection: Silhouette of birds singing on branch

Silhouette of birds singing on branch Date: c. 1930

Background imageSings Collection: ROUGET DE LISLE, Claude-Joseph (1760-1836). Composer

ROUGET DE LISLE, Claude-Joseph (1760-1836). Composer
" ROUGET DE LISLE, Claude-Joseph (1760-1836). Composer of French national anthem " La Marseillaise". French Revolution

Background imageSings Collection: Music at home: Family at the piano

Music at home: Family at the piano
A lady plays the piano, while two children sing. Date: 1878

Background imageSings Collection: George Kleine presents the Cines photo drama Quo Vadis Nero

George Kleine presents the Cines photo drama Quo Vadis Nero sings while Rome burns. Motion picture poster for Quo Vadis showing Nero playing lyre while citizens of Rome flee the fire. Date c1913

Background imageSings Collection: Street music: a ballad singer, 1865

Street music: a ballad singer, 1865
A ragged ballad singer sings on a street corner. Ladies in crinolines hurry past him, but three ragged children show interest. Date: 1865

Background imageSings Collection: Street music: A street singer, 1857

Street music: A street singer, 1857
A passing child shows charity to an old street singer, placing money in his hat in appreciation for his music. Date: 1857

Background imageSings Collection: Street music: a ballad singer

Street music: a ballad singer
The ballad singer. " He is your only performer that requires not many entreaties for a song; for he will chant, without asking, to a street cur or a parish post."

Background imageSings Collection: Street music: orphan ballad singers

Street music: orphan ballad singers
Orphan ballad singers perform in a street. An audience of children listen, whilst a woman seated on a bench looks thoughtful

Background imageSings Collection: Street music: Paris balladeer

Street music: Paris balladeer
Two fashionably dressed young women laugh at a ballad singer as he sings in a Paris street. Perhaps he is singing a comic song. Date: 1912

Background imageSings Collection: Blind Hannah Brentford, 1827

Blind Hannah Brentford, 1827
Hannah Brentford, blind musician of Bunhill-row, shown here aged 24 giving a street performance of hymns, accompanied by her violin

Background imageSings Collection: Music at home, 17th century

Music at home, 17th century
Music at home: a lady plays the harpsichord whilst a gentleman sings. Another lady looks on, and is served by a page

Background imageSings Collection: The village glee singers

The village glee singers. Two men enjoy a good sing, whilst a third has a nap at the table. Date: 18th century

Background imageSings Collection: Music at home, 1883

Music at home, 1883
A lady plays the piano by candlelight, whilst a portly gentleman with a monocle sings along. 1883

Background imageSings Collection: Music at home - As the old sing, so the young pipe

Music at home - As the old sing, so the young pipe
A wealthy family group make music together-an old lady in spectacles sings from her large woven chair, a woman holds a child playing a flute

Background imageSings Collection: Music at home, 1906

Music at home, 1906
A young lady sporting a straw boater sings, whilst a serious-looking senior chap accompanies on the piano. 1906

Background imageSings Collection: American Scouts around a camp fire

American Scouts around a camp fire
A group of eight American Boy Scouts sit around a camp fire next to their tent at night. They stare intently at one of their group as he raises his arms speaking or singing. circa 1950s

Background imageSings Collection: Male Hippy on Stage

Male Hippy on Stage
HIPPIES A male hippy, wearing little more than a full length floral coat, beads and facial paint, sings on stage at the Love-In at Woburn Park, England. Date: August 1967

Background imageSings Collection: Britannia and Eve Christmas cover 1936

Britannia and Eve Christmas cover 1936
Front cover illustration featuring two female choristers, singing Christmas carols without even having to look at the words

Background imageSings Collection: Minstrels sing stories of heroes

Minstrels sing stories of heroes
Minstrels sang of the famous deeds of heroes. A medieval minstrel with a celtic harp sings stories to a rapt audience of men, women and children

Background imageSings Collection: At the Conservatoire

At the Conservatoire
A student practices her singing and oratory at a Conservatoire in France

Background imageSings Collection: Black Algerian Musician

Black Algerian Musician
A grinning Black Algerian Musician standing in front of a brick wall and singing a song entitled " O, Madame Bono"

Background imageSings Collection: A male quartet

A male quartet
Four men link arms and sing to their hearts content. They are all smartly dressed in waistcoats and jackets, and wear tricorne hats

Background imageSings Collection: A Priest sings at the end of mass

A Priest sings at the end of mass
A priest sings Domine, Salvam fac Rempublicam, the response which can be used at the end of Mass, expressing the prayer of blessing for the Church and State

Background imageSings Collection: A Sudanese Musician and a Dervish, Morocco

A Sudanese Musician and a Dervish, Morocco
A Sudanese Musician in full flight and a (possibly a Rifai) Turkish Dervish - both (rather oddly) in Morocco

Background imageSings Collection: American Girl Singing

American Girl Singing
An American girl accompanies herself at the piano as she sings Oh, promise me !

Background imageSings Collection: Singer and Fiddler

Singer and Fiddler
A young girl sings while her grandfather fiddles

Background imageSings Collection: French Street Traders

French Street Traders
A man pulls a water cart, a minstrel sings along to his hand-cranked music box and a lady sits mending socks, on a street with a dentist, upholsterer and oyster shop

Background imageSings Collection: Girls Give Doll Concert

Girls Give Doll Concert

Background imageSings Collection: Carol Singer

Carol Singer
Christ is born in Bethlehem - a girl sings beneath a wintry bough

Background imageSings Collection: Bruant by Lautrec

Bruant by Lautrec
Aristide Bruant sings at the Mirliton, Paris, every evening - and the beer is only 13 sous

Background imageSings Collection: USA Memorial Service

USA Memorial Service
Revivalist Ira Sankey sings to an immense congregation at the memorial service to fellow revivalist Charles Haddon Spurgeon



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