Minstrels' contest posters & prints

Detail of the Landgrave's Fresco, Wartburg Castle, c.1855 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

Minstrels at a Banquet in the Fourteenth Century Anonymous

The Minstrels Alfred Seifert

Minstrels Anonymous

Al Jolson Minstrel Show, Gaiety Theatre Manx Press Pictures

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

The Tyrolese Minstrels Anonymous

Marie Belle's black and white minstrels Manx Press Pictures

Scene of a Tournament in the Fourteenth Century, 1812 Pierre Henri Revoil

A Smoking Concert by the Wandering Minstrels, 1870 Anonymous

Advertisement For Minstral Show Anonymous

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

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

Wandering Minstrels Myles Birket Foster

Minstrels and Jugglers at Court, 1882 Anonymous

Wandering Minstrels Hubert Robert

Padean Minstrels in performance at Vauxhall Gardens, London English School

Tableau Vivant from the Lay of the Last Minstrel Mf. Byrne, the Irish Harper Anonymous

The Minstrel, 1840s William Powell Frith

Mediaeval Pastime-Minstrels Jugglers and Dwarf. Anonymous

Stan Stennett the resident comedian on the Black and White Minstrel Show. Bob Hope

Les Minstrels Parisiens. London, England, 1895 Unknown

Wandering minstrels at Yokohama Anonymous

Scene from 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel', 1864-70 Richard Beavis

The Rival Candidates Isaac Cruikshank

The Lay of the Last Minstrel from a Painting by W.P. Frith R.A. In the Flatou Collection Anonymous

The Wandering Minstrel, 1858 James Hayllar

Minnesanger Karl Theodor von Piloty

The Unrequited Minstrel Ella M. Bedford

The Pier, Hastings, c.1890 English Photographer

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

Miss World Beauty Competition 1958 Arthur Sidey

Lay of The Last Minstrel, 1890 Ralph Hedley

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