Sujet

Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: Mountain Horn, 1870. Creator: Unknown.

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: Mountain Horn, 1870. 'The mountain horn, of wood, bound with brass, is nearly 8 ft. long, and is one of those used by the Alpine herdsmen of Switzerland, and likewise in Sweden, to give signals to each other, or to call their cattle together, as well as to beguile their leisure with pastoral music'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A49_415

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Droits gérés

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10,9Mo (334,5Ko) / 42,0cm x 6,5cm / 4959 x 766 (300dpi)

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music arts mountain mountains mountain range Alps alpine art British museum geography horn collection century musical instrument musical instruments Britain newspapers press print artefact artifact B&W Alphorn wind instrument engraved engraving The Alps 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News South Kensington Museum wood engraving ILN newspaper object Unknown 19th-century The Illustrated London News alpine horn