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[Landscape with Flute-playing Shepherd]

Contributor: Lefebre, Valentin
Date: 1600

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Adoration of the shepherds

Contributor: Marinus
Date: 1600

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Pastorale - Flute Playing Shepherd

Contributor: [Dc?]
Date: 1600

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Abbildung der zwo blutigen Seeschlaten [sic] gehalten, auff den 7. vnd 14. Iuni 1673 zwischen beyden mächtigen königlichen Seeflotten von Franckreich vnd Englandt gegen die von den vereinigten Niderlanden ...
Translated title: Picture of the two bloody sea battles from the 7th and 14th of June 1673 between the two powerful royal sea fleets of France and England against those of united Netherlands | Additional image caption title: Vorstellung der Neuen Münsterischen Schantz, wie selbige am 12. 22. July 1673 durch die Holländer mit Sturm wider erobert worden | Additional image caption title translated: Introduction of the new Münster redout which was captured by storm by the Dutch on 12/22 July, 1673 | Additional image caption title: Abbild der Belägrung der weltberühmten Festung Mastricht | Additional image caption title translated: Image of the siege of the world famous fortress of Maastricht 1 print : engraving ; sheet 33 x 42 cm on card mount 51 x 61 cm | Birds-eye view engraving shows three views on one sheet. The top and largest picture shows galleon ships involved in battle on the sea. The picture on the lower left shows a plan of the star fortress of "Langackershans" (Nieuweschans) on the "Dollart" (Dollard) river. Includes views…

Contributor: Hauslab, Franz,, Dlc - Hauslab, Franz
Date: 1673

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[Young Man playing a Viola da Gamba and Woman in a Landscape]

Contributor: Lefebre, Valentin
Date: 1600

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[Pendulum or oscillating clock mechanisms, showing escapement mechanism, curved metal strips to check swing of pendulum, and clock with pendulum and weights] 1 print : engraving.

Date: 1673-01-01

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Edmund A. Bowles collection of musical iconography, 1300-1985 Edmund Bowles (born 1925) is a musicologist specializing in the history of the timpani and other musical instruments. This collection consists of photostats and photographic prints of musical iconography dating from 1300 through 1985, the bulk of which was created during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. It is especially rich in representations of percussion instruments, particularly the timpani, and includes a considerable amount of…

Contributor: Bowles, Edmund A. (Edmund Addison)
Date: 1300

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The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."

Date: 1581

Collection Items: View 51,843 Items

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Le Flutiste debout (The Flutist, standing)

Contributor: Coryn, or Quirin, Bol, or Boel
Date: 1600

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Fine Prints About 85,000 prints created as art works, ca. 1450-present (most dating between 1800 and the present). Prints by American printmakers and artists (e.g., Paul Revere, Mary Cassatt, Jim Dine, Joseph Pennell) predominate, but creators in many other countries are also represented (e.g., Albrecht Dürer and Marc Chagall). Subjects vary widely, for example, portraits, religious themes, historical events, and street scenes.

Date: 1450

Collection Items: View 4,622 Items

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Drei Flötenspieler (Three Flute Players)

Contributor: Pauli, Andries
Date: 1600

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Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.

Contributor: Macfarlane, Seth - Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl
Date: 1495

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The Drunken Silenus

Contributor: Orley, Richard Van
Date: 1670

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Les musiciens champêtres (Country musicians)

Contributor: Dassonville, Jacques
Date: 1600

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Tubicines, Liticines, Lÿricines, Cornicines, qui praecedebant Victimam et Hecatoniben (Trumpeteers, cornetists, lyre players, horn players, who precede the victims and sacrifice...)

Contributor: Unknown Artist
Date: 1600

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[Pan and Apollo]

Contributor: Bisschop, Jan De
Date: 1600

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[Rooftop astronomical observatory in Danzig, Germany] 1 print : engraving.

Contributor: Stech, Andreas - Hevelius, Johannes
Date: 1673-01-01

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Gedenck-Zeichen abbildend auff was Weise die Stadt Utrecht von den Frantzosen den 23. November 1673 verlassen worden nach dem sie fünff Tage zuvor 15. der fürnehmsten Herren aufs derselibigen als Geissel zu …
Commemorative drawing depicting the wise men of the city of Utrecht | Gedenck Zeichen der Französischen Flucht auss Utrecht | Commemorative drawing of the French escape from Utrecht | Lampoon about the withdrawal of French troops from Utrecht, after their having taken fifteen town councilors as hostages, 23 November 1673 1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 42 x 32 cm on card mount 61 x 51 cm | Birds-eye view print shows crowds of people, wagons and onlookers walking or riding horses down the street. In the procession are town leaders, merchants, clergy, military personnel and lackeys. In the background is view of the skyline of Utrecht. Elements in print are labeled…

Contributor: Hauslab, Franz,, Dlc - Hauslab, Franz
Date: 1673-01-01

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The Flute Lesson

Contributor: Valck, Gerard,/52
Date: 1670

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Statt Eger
City of Eger 1 print : engraving ; sheet 19 x 30 cm on card mount 36 x 46 cm | Print shows a birdseye view of the formation of cavalry troops serving under Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I on the battle field in Eger, Hungary that took place on August 22, 1673. Groupings of troops are identified: Harattisch, Caprarisch, Alt Hollstain, Heysterisch, Sellisch, Portcaische, Gruyerisches, Marches…