Person who composes, conducts or performs music

Vishnu resting on the ocean accompanied by Lakshmi, Tumbara, Hanuman, Narada, Garuda and Brahma sitting on a lotus. Chromolithograph.

A Scottish musical shoemaker: he sits on a bench and contemplates the sole of a shoe he is holding; on the floor and resting against the bench are a violin, a recorder, and a book of music scores. Etching by Walter Geikie.

An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.

World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.

General John Reid, a very thin man. Engraving, 1813.

An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animal's bladder. Drypoint by L. Flameng.

A blind hurdy gurdy player and his son and two dancing dogs. Coloured lithograph by White after E.J. Pigal.

A man plays the fiddle at a tavern table as another sings and others listen. Engraving by M. Liart, c. 1783, after A. van Ostade.

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; 21.8 x 25.6 cm

Four monkeys dressed as musicians giving a concert. Coloured engraving after D Teniers.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 11.7 x 14.5 cm

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

1 print : lithograph ; image 21.5 x 30.5 cm

Sancho Panza (the squire of Don Quixote) , at a banquet, being starved for health reasons by his physician. Lithograph by C. Nanteuil after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.

Four musicians at a performance: the violinist points with his bow at the sheet music as another man plays the theorbo, and a guitar is placed on the table. Etching.

1 drawing : pen and grey ink and grey wash

Patie Birnie, a fiddler. Wash drawing.

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Musicians

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Four monkeys dressed as musicians giving a concert. Coloured engraving after D Teniers.

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Sancho Panza (the squire of Don Quixote) , at a banquet, being starved for health reasons by his physician. Lithograph by C. Nanteuil after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.

Four musicians at a performance: the violinist points with his bow at the sheet music as another man plays the theorbo, and a guitar is placed on the table. Etching.

Patie Birnie, a fiddler. Wash drawing.

Musicians

Images from the collections

Images referencing Musicians

Works from the collections

Four monkeys dressed as musicians giving a concert. Coloured engraving after D Teniers.

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Sancho Panza (the squire of Don Quixote) , at a banquet, being starved for health reasons by his physician. Lithograph by C. Nanteuil after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.

Four musicians at a performance: the violinist points with his bow at the sheet music as another man plays the theorbo, and a guitar is placed on the table. Etching.

Patie Birnie, a fiddler. Wash drawing.

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