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Songs

Musical composition for voice(s)

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Images of Songs

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  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • "Morayland" : prize song / by Frank Sutherland (Uncle Peter).
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
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Images about Songs

11 images from works
  • Medical song: Morrison's Pills
  • Men and women misrepresenting the subjects of six popular songs. Coloured soft-ground etching after H. Alken, 1822.
  • Singers Onyeka Onwenu and King Sunny Ade recording their song 'Choices' promoting family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria, ca. 198-.
  • A man with a stick selling song-sheets is accompanied by a woman moving with the aid of two crutches. Coloured etching by Lapbame, 1820.
  • A woman in a red dress with puffed sleeves sings beside a pianist representing an advertisement for a benefit concert entitled 'Artists against AIDS. The Big Aria' to support Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe at the Schubertsaal Wiener concert hall in Vienna on 24 October 1987. Colour lithograph.
  • A man on a donkey and three drinkers toasting Bacchus: drinking song. Engraving and etching, 17--, after A.Corelli.
  • Onyeka Onwenu and King Sunny Ade with lyrics of their song 'Wait for me' about family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria, ca. 1980's.
  • A disabled soldier has his wooden legs stolen by four Irishmen in a bar. Colour lithograph by H.G. Banks, ca. 1899.
  • The first verse of a poem entitled, "Rheinweinlied", surrounded by an ornamental design with a large wine glass. Etching, 1842.
  • A man on a donkey and three drinkers toasting Bacchus: drinking song. Engraving and etching, 17--, after A.Corelli.
  • A man is selling song sheets at a fair;  a crowd has gathered to watch a Punch and Judy show. Coloured wood engraving.

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20 works

    • Books

    The court of virtue, 1565 / edited and with an introduction by Russell A. Fraser.

    Hall, John, 1529 or 1530-1568 or 1569. | Date: [1961]
    • Pictures

    The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.

    | Date: 8 August 1931 | Reference: 16806i
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    • Online

    A countryman driving a wagonload of hay into town spatters a townsman's breeches with mud. Mezzotint and engraving, 1792.

    | Date: 25th July 1792 | Reference: 30158i
    • Ephemera

    Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 2.

    • Books

    Cantos, contos e imagens : puxando mais uns fios nessa história / José Roberto Franco Reis, Muza Clara Chaves Velasques (orgs.).

    Reis, José Roberto Franco. | Date: 2010
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