Device created or adapted to make musical sounds

concept

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.

A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.

Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes. Collotype.

An old man with a wooden leg, probably a former soldier, marches with a shouldered broomstick to the drum beaten by a child behind him. Lithograph by T. Farlow after R. Farrier.

Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.

Cupid (Love) with arrows sits next to items representing arts and sciences. Etching by H. Winstanley, 17--, after F. Snyders and A. van Dyck.

A seething mass of people driven by a multitude of different wills; representing the levelling of life by death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1690.

A boy plays his 'rommelpot' for an old woman as she peers through her spectacles at him. Line engraving by J.G. Wille after G. Schalken.

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

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

Two people seated inside a palisade prior to execution by immolation

African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.

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Musical instruments

Images from the collections

Images referencing Musical instruments

Works from the collections

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

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

Two people seated inside a palisade prior to execution by immolation

African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.

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.

Musical instruments

Images from the collections

Images referencing Musical instruments

Works from the collections

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

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

Two people seated inside a palisade prior to execution by immolation

African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.

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.

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