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Tambourine

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  • A drunken bacchanalian gathering with women and a satyr trying to waken two sleeping men. Etching by G. de Lairesse after himself.
  • A drunken Silenus being helped to the base of a tree where lie female satyrs with their young. Etching by P. Soutman after P. P. Rubens.
  • A man and a woman, both black, play musical instruments. Engraving.
  • A bacchanalian gathering with leopards pulling a chariot and Silenus (?) on a donkey. Engraving by N.D. Beauvais after L. Cheron.
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    A drunken Silenus being helped to the base of a tree where lie female satyrs with their young. Etching by P. Soutman after P. P. Rubens.

    Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640. | Reference: 26955i
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    A man and a woman in the Roman Campagna dancing to the tambourine played by another woman; a bagpiper and five other people look on. Etching by J.B. Chatelain and engraving by F. Vivares, 1742, after Claude Lorraine, 1669.

    Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682. | Date: 1742 | Reference: 3055160i
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    A bacchanalian gathering with leopards pulling a chariot and Silenus (?) on a donkey. Engraving by N.D. Beauvais after L. Cheron.

    | Reference: 26098i
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    A man and a woman, both black, play musical instruments. Engraving.

    | Date: 1740-1749 | Reference: 34084i
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    A drunken bacchanalian gathering with women and a satyr trying to waken two sleeping men. Etching by G. de Lairesse after himself.

    Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711. | Reference: 26952i
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