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Guitar

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  • A barber wearing a long cloak is playing the guitar. Coloured engraving by Juan de la Cruz after Manuel de la Cruz.
  • A man holding a guitar is leaning against a wall, two children are lying asleep on the ground beside him. Etching by J.J. Martínez Espinosa.
  • A blind singer wearing a long cloak is playing the guitar. Etching by Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla after Manuel de la Cruz.
  • Michel Boai, a "chin performer" (on the guitar?), performing with his associates, his wife playing the guitar and M. Engels playing the violin. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1830.
  • Constantinople: a girl playing the tehegour (guitar). Engraving by G. Scotin the elder, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.
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    Constantinople: a girl playing the tehegour (guitar). Engraving by G. Scotin the elder, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.

    Vanmour, Jean-Baptiste, 1671-1737. | Date: [1714] | Reference: 2498822i
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    A man making love to a woman while she is playing the guitar. Etching by D. Deuchar.

    | Date: [1803?] | Reference: 555401i
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    Michel Boai, a "chin performer" (on the guitar?), performing with his associates, his wife playing the guitar and M. Engels playing the violin. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1830.

    | Date: 1830-1839 | Reference: 34148i
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    A woman plays guitar at a table surrounded by men; representing the five senses. Etching by J.C. Levasseur and F. Hubert, c. 1800, after A. Borel after Valentin de Boulogne.

    Valentin, de Boulogne, 1591-1632. | Reference: 27199i
    Part of: Galerie du Palais Royal.
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    A man holding a guitar is leaning against a wall, two children are lying asleep on the ground beside him. Etching by J.J. Martínez Espinosa.

    Martínez Espinosa, Juan José, 1826-1897. | Date: 1877 | Reference: 29509i
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