Tambourine player (Pompeiian mosaic).
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Item data
Title
Tambourine player (Pompeiian mosaic).
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
Music -- Percussion
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1879-04
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC MUSIC-Per
Subjects
Percussion instruments
Music
Masks
Mosaics -- Italy
tambourines
Entertainers -- Italy
Genres
Notes
Content: "Our picture (Fig. 6) shows a masked actor playing on the tambourine, and is from a mosaic found in 1762 in a house situated outside the walls of Pompeii" [quoted from source].
Source Note: Harper's magazine. (New York : Harper Brothers, 1850-).
Physical Description
Wood engravings
Extent: 10.1 x 5.6 cm.
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17487573
Barcode: 33333159457338
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6aae89d0-c558-012f-e48d-58d385a7bc34
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1879-04
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Tambourine player (Pompeiian mosaic)." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6aae89d0-c558-012f-e48d-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. Tambourine player (Pompeiian mosaic). Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6aae89d0-c558-012f-e48d-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Tambourine player (Pompeiian mosaic)." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6aae89d0-c558-012f-e48d-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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