Minstels' contest posters & prints

Detail of Der Saengerkreis, Wartburg Castle, c.1845/55 Moritz Ludwig von Schwind

Singers Contest on the Wartburg, c. 1853 Anton Romako

The best poets and minstrels come together at Wartburg and are rewarded by Landgrave Hermann for particularly fine achievements Ferdinand II Piloty

The Minstrels Alfred Seifert

Mediaeval Pastime-Minstrels Jugglers and Dwarf. Anonymous

Marie Belle's black and white minstrels Manx Press Pictures

Detail of the Landgrave's Fresco, Wartburg Castle, c.1855 Moritz Ludwig von Schwind

Wandering Minstrels Myles Birket Foster

Hors Concours - Les Midinettes Jean Beraud

Minstrels Anonymous

A Smoking Concert by the Wandering Minstrels, 1870 Anonymous

Two minstrels. Illustration from the codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, c. 1280 Anonymous

Advertisement For Minstral Show Anonymous

The Tyrolese Minstrels Anonymous

Minstrels and Jugglers at Court, 1882 Anonymous

Westminster Races... Isaac Cruikshank

Les Minstrels Parisiens. London, England, 1895 Unknown

Ramsey Promenade, with Allan and Bill Kier's minstrels Thomas Horsfell Midwood

The Contest of Apollo and Pan, 1599 Hans I or Johann Rottenhammer

Two minstrels. Illustration from the codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, c. 1280 Anonymous

Beach Contest 1958 Percy Bosher

Wandering Minstrels Hubert Robert

The Locomotive Contest in Liverpool in October 1829 Anonymous

View of the Pandean Minstrels in performance at Vauxhall, London John Lee

Padean Minstrels in performance at Vauxhall Gardens, London English School

The Contest at Auckinleck from 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second', etched by Thomas Rowlandson, 1786 Samuel (after) Collings

The Westminster mendicant Thomas Rowlandson

Daily Mirror Blackpool Week. Beefcake Contest Anonymous

Miss World Beauty Competition 1958 Arthur Sidey

Presentation of Prizes to the Queen's (Westminster) Rifle Volunteers in Westminster Hall Anonymous

The Rival Candidates, frontispiece in the book History of the Westminster Election.. by Lovers of Truth and Justice, London, 1784 Thomas Rowlandson

Contestants in a dance marathon Anonymous

Wimborne Minster Restored Anonymous

York Minster Anonymous

York Minster, 1991 Peter Miller

Satire on the Westminster Election with candidates at hustings by the portico of St Paul's, Covent Garden, 1741 George Bickham