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Subject Musical Instruments

281. Photo 1224/2(155)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(155)
Title:
Kashmir nautch girls. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Group portrait of dancing girls and musicians.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

282. Photo 1224/3(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(22)
Title:
[A young boy with a wind instrument]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Full-length studio portrait of a young boy, seated on a stool blowing into a bamboo wind instrument. Image in carte-de-visite format.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

283. Photo 1224/3(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(49)
Title:
[Two Chinese girls]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Full-length hand tinted studio portrait of two girls, one seated on a chair holding a stringed instrument, the other standing beside her. In the background are four banners with Chinese inscriptions.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

284. Photo 1224/4(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(38)
Title:
Java. Native Prince's Band. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Gamelan orchestra with their instruments, with a man in European dress seated in the right background.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1879
Extent:
1 item

285. Photo 1224/4(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(39)
Title:
Batavian Dancing Girl. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Full-length studio group portrait of a woman in costume, with musicians seated around her. This particular group played wayang topeng, one of the traditional varieties of Javanese theatre, in which the players performed roles while wearing topeng or masks made out of wood. Such groups usually d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

286. Photo 1224/4(86)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(86)
Title:
Cochin China [Vietnam]. [Musical instruments]. Photographer: Émile Gsell
Scope & Content:
Arrangement of musical instruments, both stringed and percussion.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1879
Extent:
1 item

287. Photo 1224/5(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/5(15)
Title:
Kioto [Daibutz bell]. Photographer: Stillfried, Raimund von
Scope & Content:
Inscribed Daibutz Bell 533 in the negative. View of massive temple bell, resting on stone blocks.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

288. Photo 1224/6(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(43)
Title:
Geyshers [Geishas]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Numbered 614 in the negative. Studio portrait of two geishas, one kneeling playing a stringed instrument, the other dancing, with a fan held aloft in her right hand. The two are posed in front of backdrop painted with a traditional scene.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

289. Photo 1224/6(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(46)
Title:
Singing girls [Japan]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Numbered 773 in the negative. Studio portrait of a young Japanese woman seated on a tatami mat playing a stringed instrument.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

290. Photo 1224/6(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(47)
Title:
Singing girls [Japan]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Numbered 776 in the negative. Studio portrait of two Japanese women, posed with musical instruments (a kind of zither and a guitar-like instrument).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

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