Sujet

Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum: Gunibry, or Moorish Guitar, 1870. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum: Gunibry, or Moorish Guitar, 1870. 'The gunibry, a rudely-constructed thing, is made of half a pumpkin, covered with sheepskin, and furnished with two catgut strings, to be played with a split quill. [It is played by] Arab musicians]'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A48_389

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

25,7Mo (416,6Ko) / 42,0cm x 15,3cm / 4960 x 1808 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Africa music arts art continent British museum guitar location collection century musical instrument musical instruments Britain newspapers press print artefact North African artifact B&W North Africa stringed instrument engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News South Kensington Museum wood engraving ILN newspaper object Unknown 19th-century The Illustrated London News