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Musical instruments

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  • Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.
  • Saint Cecilia with Saint Paul the Apostle, Saint John the Evangelist, a bishop and Saint Mary Magdalen. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Raphael.
  • Aeolus, at the request of Juno, opens a door in a mountainside, releasing the winds that will wreck the fleet of Aeneas; representing the element air. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1718, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.
  • 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 begging Brahman performing a ritual with his wife. Gouache drawing.
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Catalogue

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    • Online

    A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 44066i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Three faces, one of them blowing a trumpet, with an arrow

    Birch, Martin, 1935-1982 | Date: September 1972 | Reference: 2848336i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Two people seated inside a palisade prior to execution by immolation

    Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957 | Date: c.1954-1957 | Reference: 2952451i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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    African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 21357i
    • Pictures

    Aeolus, at the request of Juno, opens a door in a mountainside, releasing the winds that will wreck the fleet of Aeneas; representing the element air. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1718, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.

    Boulogne, Louis, 1654-1733. | Date: 1718 | Reference: 23945i
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