EditorialThe harpist during a rehearsal of “Phantom of the Opera,” Oct. 21, 2021, which is about to reopen after a long pandemic pause, at the Majestic Theater in New York. (Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times)
EditorialA slave girl assists female guests, while others exchange fruits. They wear cones of ointment on their heads. Female harpist and dancing girls. Wall painting, tomb of Nakht (Wall C), scribe and priest under Pharaoh Thutmosis IV (1412-1462), 18th Dynast...
EditorialHarpist and acrobats. Limestone bas-relief near the White Chapel of Karnak, dedicated to Amon-Min, ithyphallic god of fertility. Middle Kingdom (2065-1785 BCE).
EditorialHarpist playing and singing to Anhour Khaou, chief builder at Thebes (fan: symbol of office), and to his wife (earring). Only painting of a singing harpist. Wallpainting in Anhour Khaou's tomb, carved 10 m below ground level, in the cemetery of Deir el...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of an elderly man and three younger men at a table, with a harpist seated on a stool on the right; a decorated initial 'Q'(ui). Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. S...
EditorialByrne — The Irish Harper. Full-length portrait, in right profile, of the blind Irish harpist Patrick Byrne, seated playing the harp. . One Hundred Calotype Sketches. Edinburgh, 1848. From a volume of calotype images and portraits. Early photographic ...
EditorialConcubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze). The dance instructor drinks sake near a large grilled sea bream on a plate. 18th century. Handcoloure...
EditorialEnglish gentleman and ladies listening to a harpist at a ball in a stately home. Two lovers flirt in a corner, and four people play cards in another room. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combes...
EditorialStephanie Felicite du Crest de St. Aubin, Comtesse de Genlis, French writer, harpist and educator 1746-1830. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Adminis...
EditorialFragment of a Leather Hanging(?) with an Erotic Scene, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550?1458 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, Tomb, found in debris during clearance, 1929?30, Leather (deerskin), paint, leather: h. 16 cm (6 5/16 in); w. 1...