EditorialTools and weapons of the Camacan people of Bahia, Brazil. Bow 1, arrow 2,3, woven apron 4, bag 5, headdress with foliage 6, a gourd percussion instrument or kechieeh 7, and a bundle of dried leaves or herenehedioca 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving...
EditorialCupids or genii playing music and games. Above, cupids dancing while playing a 10-string lyre and crotales, a bronze percussion instrument. Below, three cupids play a game of pulling a stake from the ground. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from ...
EditorialA bacchant surprised by a faun in a desolate mountain spot. At the faun's feet are his curved stick or pedum, seven-pipe flute or syrinx, and a Rhombus, a percussion instrument like a tambourine. At the bacchant's feet are a sacred staff or thyrsus dec...
EditorialA bacchant surprised by a faun in a desolate mountain spot. At the faun's feet are his curved stick or pedum, seven-pipe flute or syrinx, and a Rhombus, a percussion instrument like a tambourine. At the bacchant's feet are a sacred staff or thyrsus dec...
EditorialCupids or genii playing music and games. Above, cupids dancing while playing a 10-string lyre and crotales, a bronze percussion instrument. Below, three cupids play a game of pulling a stake from the ground. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from ...
EditorialAustralian aboriginal with a shield used as percussion instrument during a corroboree dance. Musician of New Holland. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R. Ackermann, ...
EditorialAuger with inscription: SEBASTIAEN VAN GEERSBEGE 1581, The cast round auger extends slightly upwards, has a high projecting profiled edge and a flared edge profiled foot. On the border in Latin majuscles the inscription SEBASTAEN VAN GEERSBEGE 1581 wit...
EditorialSeated figure of Zhang GuoLao, one of the Eight Immortals, Porcelain image on hexagonal base, painted on biscuits in green, yellow, eggplant and black. It depicts the sitting Zhang GuoLao, in a robe of clouds. His attribute, a bamboo percussion instrum...
EditorialA bacchant surprised by a faun in a desolate mountain spot. At the faun's feet are his curved stick or pedum, seven-pipe flute or syrinx, and a Rhombus, a percussion instrument like a tambourine. At the bacchant's feet are a sacred staff or thyrsus dec...
EditorialCupids or genii playing music and games. Above, cupids dancing while playing a 10-string lyre and crotales, a bronze percussion instrument. Below, three cupids play a game of pulling a stake from the ground. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from ...
EditorialA bacchant surprised by a faun in a desolate mountain spot. At the faun's feet are his curved stick or pedum, seven-pipe flute or syrinx, and a Rhombus, a percussion instrument like a tambourine. At the bacchant's feet are a sacred staff or thyrsus dec...
EditorialCupids or genii playing music and games. Above, cupids dancing while playing a 10-string lyre and crotales, a bronze percussion instrument. Below, three cupids play a game of pulling a stake from the ground. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from ...
EditorialTools and weapons of the Camacan people of Bahia, Brazil. Bow 1, arrow 2,3, woven apron 4, bag 5, headdress with foliage 6, a gourd percussion instrument or kechieeh 7, and a bundle of dried leaves or herenehedioca 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving...
EditorialA bacchant surprised by a faun in a desolate mountain spot. At the faun's feet are his curved stick or pedum, seven-pipe flute or syrinx, and a Rhombus, a percussion instrument like a tambourine. At the bacchant's feet are a sacred staff or thyrsus dec...
EditorialCupids or genii playing music and games. Above, cupids dancing while playing a 10-string lyre and crotales, a bronze percussion instrument. Below, three cupids play a game of pulling a stake from the ground. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from ...
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