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Two workers in a field playing music while another removes a yoke from a pair of oxen

With Songs the Jovial Hinds Return from Plow, 1757 - 1827

William Blake

Modern Beauty Practicing Jōruri Music (Tōsei jō jōruri)

Modern Beauty Practicing Jōruri Music (Tōsei jō jōruri), d. 1806

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Dancing; Music (Eros Playing the Element of Harmony); Drama (The Fates)

Dancing; Music (Eros Playing the Element of Harmony); Drama (The Fates), 1818 - 1897

Hugo Bürkner

The Great Russian Ball at the Academy of Music, November 5, 1863

The Great Russian Ball at the Academy of Music, November 5, 1863, 1836 - 1910

After Winslow Homer

From the Opera Mignon, Sheet Music: "She Did Not Believe"

From the Opera Mignon, Sheet Music: "She Did Not Believe", 1800 - 1899

Anonymous France 1835

Let  Us Help One Other/Cover of sheet music

Let Us Help One Other/Cover of sheet music, 19th century

Pierre-Auguste Lamy

The  Stage Coach Stop  or  Departure and  Arrival/Cover of sheet music

The Stage Coach Stop or Departure and Arrival/Cover of sheet music, 19th century

Victor Coindre

Sheet Music: Steal, gentle breeze, to my little boat

Sheet Music: Steal, gentle breeze, to my little boat, 1800 - 1899

Anonymous France 1835

Singled-sided (split?) wooden printing block: two "angels" playing musical instruments

Singled-sided (split?) wooden printing block: two "angels" playing musical instruments

Japanese

Seven Songs for Koto Music with its Brief History (Kinkyoku-shō)

Seven Songs for Koto Music with its Brief History (Kinkyoku-shō)

Japanese

"Koto"(Musical Instrument)-Shaped Poem Box with designs of Bugaku Dancers and Cherry Tree

"Koto"(Musical Instrument)-Shaped Poem Box with designs of Bugaku Dancers and Cherry Tree

Japanese

Red-figure cup fragment, Side A: music lesson: youth on right seated with lyre.

Red-figure cup fragment, Side A: music lesson: youth on right seated with lyre., active 500 - 480 BCE

School of Makron

Six Verses of a Spanish Poem/Song "Pelinera" (?); verso:  Three lines of musical notations

Six Verses of a Spanish Poem/Song "Pelinera" (?); verso: Three lines of musical notations, 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

Asavari Ragini (painting, recto; text, verso), from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series

Asavari Ragini (painting, recto; text, verso), from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series

Indian

View of a Palace (recto); Asavari Ragini (verso)

View of a Palace (recto); Asavari Ragini (verso)

Indian

Kakubha Ragini, or Lady with Three Peacocks (painting, recto), possibly from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series

Kakubha Ragini, or Lady with Three Peacocks (painting, recto), possibly from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) Series

Indian

A page of a book with text in French and an illustration of a woman in an evening gown singing on a stage

Yvette Guilbert, 1864 - 1901

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

An elderly couple surrounded by their family and sheep under a tree

There Was a Man in the Land of Uz (The Book of Job), 1757 - 1827

William Blake

A man uses a complicated instrument in front of several onlookers while warriors run above.

Hydria (water jar): Herakles as Musician

Greek

Shinto Music Plum (Kagura ume), from the series Series for the Hanazono Group (Hanazono bantsuzuki)

Shinto Music Plum (Kagura ume), from the series Series for the Hanazono Group (Hanazono bantsuzuki), 1780-1850

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

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