Playing string instrument bowed posters & prints

Violin Player in an inn Wallerant Vaillant Jan van Somer

Young violin player Willem Steelink I

Violin Player and flutist Adriaen Brouwer

Niccolo Paganini, violinist Daniel (1806-70) Maclise

The Viola da Gamba Player Dutch School

Farmer plays the lute David Teniers II

Violin and Bow Anonymous

Guitar player John Harden

Music-Making Angels School Italian

Violin Anonymous

A woman playing a stringed instrument Daniel Rebel

Fiddler with a prosthetic arm, with a market in the background Thomas Lord Busby

Guitar School English

Portrait of Johann Schenck Constantin Netscher

Girl with Guitar Anonymous

The Old Violin, 1888 Jefferson David Chalfant

Double bass headstock Anonymous

A Young Man Tuning a Violin, c.1623-5 Jan the Elder Lievens

Humpback fiddler for an inn Adriaen van Ostade

Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist, violist and composer, 1830s. Anonymous

String Quartet Austrian School

Geisha playing traditional musical instruments, Japan Anonymous

Zither Franz Lehner

Lute. Italy, early 17th century Unknown

How the Viol is tuned English School

Italian musical instrument maker Antonio Stradivari in his workshop, (1926). Aleksey Kravchenko

Guitar Joseph Rudiman

Japanese musicians Anonymous

A woman playing a stringed instrument Anonymous

The Females Saints at the Tomb and the Resurrection, detail of the Mandore Player, 1330 Juan Oliver

Fernando Sor c.1825 Gottfried or Godefroy Engelmann

Musician, detail Italian School

Young woman holding guitar Anonymous

Azandeh harps English School

Street musicians, London Anonymous

Urchin with a Guitar, 1877 Antonio Mancini