Wandering 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

Wandering Uzbek Dervishes from Samarkand. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Alfred in Danes Camp
Alfred the Great disguises himself as a wandering musician and plays the harp in the camp of the Danes while gathering information about their military strength

Travelling Dog Fancier: "Do either of you two want a cheerful companion for the winter
Travelling Dog Fancier: " Do either of you two want a cheerful companion for the winter?" A small dog meanwhile, peeks out through the mans coat. Date: 1901

Iranian Wandering Dervish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Music cover, Le Juif Errant (The Wandering Jew), arranged for piano by Frederic Burgmuller, Grande Valse danced by ballerina Louise Taglioni Date: 1852

Hampton Court Palace
This painting shows the parkland gardens of Hampton Court Palace, many families are wandering around the flower beds and trees on a sunny day

This Is A Heart The Queen Leant On
This painting shows a lone man, wandering down a set of steps with a parade of people walking through the arched hallways behind

The Precipitous Town
A watercolour painting of a town with huge buildings, set in front of a tall, rocky mountain, lots of people are wandering the roads. Date: circa 1923

The Wattles
A landscape dry-point showingt some cows wandering by a few trees in the Wattle Downs, in New Zealand. Date: circa 1922

Adam and Eve
An etching depiction of the famous duo of Adam and Eve, wandering up a rocky stream of the Garden of Eden. Date: circa 1932

Market Day Dieppe
Pencil drawing of Dieppe, a fishing port on the Normandy coast of northern France. Figures are seen wandering the area on market day. Date: circa 1931

Mozart, The Magic Flute, Papageno, a wandering bird-catcher Date: first performed 1791

Original Artwork - Christmas Cracker packaging design
Original Artwork - Painted design for advertising/packaging for C.W.S. Christmas Crackers, with the crackers coming to life and wandering away! Date: circa 1937

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

Southern rockhopper penguin and wandering albatross
Southern rockhopper penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome (vulnerable), and wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans (vulnerable). Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies

Stick insects or phasmids and wandering crab spider
Stick insects or phasmids, Carausius morosus and Clonopsis gallica, and wandering crab spider, Philodromus aureolus. Phasmies, Philodrome

Mantis and stick insects
Conehead mantis, Empusa pennicornis 1, wandering violin mantis, Gongylus gongylodes 2, common walkingstick insect, Diapheromera femorata 3. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

King Alfred in disguise as a wandering harpist
King Alfred the Great (849899)in disguise as a wandering harpist infiltrating the camp of Guthrum, King of the Danish Vikings in the Danelaw, to try and find out their plans. 878

I too with my soul and body wandering amid the shadows
I too with my soul and body.. wandering amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing

THE FREE FORESTERS
The Free Foresters cricket team having just returned from a tour in Holland where the side suffered many injuries with only two players escaping unhurt Date: 1930s

Woman crocheting 1906
Photograph of a woman entitled Wandering Thoughts crocheting at home maybe for a piece of clothing or a doily. Date: 1906

EVENTS / GERMANY
THE ERA OF THE WANDERING TRIBES Date: circa 5th century

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

Bektashi Dervish at Tangiers, Morocco. Founder of the Bektashi order was Hajji Bektash Wali (1209 - 1271) - is today a renowned figure in the history and culture of both Ottoman Empire

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

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

Tashkent, Uzbekistan - A wandering Dervish Date: 1907

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

Russia - Wandering Russian Mystic begging for alms Date: 1902

Wandering Dervish and a Derivish who gives out water
Constantinople - Wandering Dervish and a Derivish who gives out free water. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

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

Wandering Dervish - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sahin (Sajahin) a Wandering Dervish from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

The Channel Islands - St Brelades Bay - Hillside view of white-walled houses around bay. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands

Uzbekistan - General scene with musicians and Samovar - early postcard. Date: 1902

Music cover, Grande Valse Brillante by Burgmuller
Music cover, Grande Valse Brillante sur le Juif Errant (Wandering Jew), opera by Halevy, written for the piano by Frederic Burgmuller. circa 1850s

Frontispiece, Legends of the Wandering Jew and the Sixteen Queens of Munster -- the Wandering Jew and the tailor Jean de Leyde (John of Leiden, Anabaptist leader). Date: published 1866

The Wandering Jew by E Temple Thurston
Promotional postcard for The Wandering Jew by E. Temple Thurston. First produced at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, 23rd August and New Theatre, 9th September 1920

Frontispiece illustration by Cecil Aldin, Moufflou, by Ouida. Showing Moufflou, a French poodle, walking along a country road in Tuscany, Italy

Wandering or migratory locust, Gryllus migratoria.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Wandering violin mantis, Indian rose mantis, Gongylus gongylodes.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans (vulnerable), and gull, Larus canus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris

Suffragette Where is my Wandering Wife?. Poor husband, left at home to mind the babies, asks, OH! Where is my wandering wife to-night? Answer

Hungry Peter as a piglet looking for food
The Outcast -- Hungry Peter as a piglet wanders away from the farm looking for more substantial food. Date: 1912

Wandering Algerian musician
Itinerant Algerian musician playing a local three-stringed guitar-type instrument. Date: circa 1910s

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