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Musicians

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

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Reference: 39681i
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    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.

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Date: [ca, 1840?] | Reference: 20044i
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    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.

    Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 22108i
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    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.

    | Reference: 33928i
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    Patie Birnie, a fiddler. Wash drawing.

    | Reference: 169i
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