Description | English: Silhouette of a grand piano, from an advertisement for R. Hupfer & Co. pianos |
Date | 1925 |
Source | Advertisement in Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte (https://archive.org/details/velhagen-klasings-monatshefte-1925-heft-1/page/13/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
Tag Archives: Pianos
Square Piano
Description | English: Square piano used as chapter headpiece in The Collector’s Whatnot, a parody of books on antiques |
Date | 1923 |
Source | The Collector’s Whatnot (https://archive.org/details/the-collectors-whatnot/page/n75/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
The Woman Who Wished She Could Play the Piano
Description | English: Woman playing piano, from an advertisement for a correspondence school |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Advertisement in Picture-Play Magazine (https://archive.org/details/Picture-playMagazineApril1922/page/n113/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
Prize Advertisements for Ibach Pianos
From the magazine Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, 1905.
These files are out of copyright in the United States; it was impossible to find all the artists’ death dates (one site, for example, lists Otto Feldmann’s birth and death dates as “unknown”), but the chance of anyone’s claiming a copyright in Europe is very small.
Woman Playing Piano
Description | English: Illustration of woman at piano, from a 1908 advertisement for Spaethe pianos |
Date | 1908 |
Source | Advertisement in Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Butterfly%2C_2021-8-15%2C_Seldom_Seen%2C_04.jpg) |
Author | Anonymous |
Unrivalled for Sweetness and Sympathy of Touch

Description | English: “Unrivalled for Sweetness and Sympathy of Touch”: image from an advertisement for Ivers & Pond pianos, 1891 |
Date | 1891 |
Source | Life (https://archive.org/details/LIFEMagazine18911231/page/n17/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
At the Chickering Piano

Description | English: Woman at piano accompanying singer, from an advertisement for Chickering pianos |
Date | 1914 |
Source | Advertisement in Everybody’s Magazine (https://archive.org/details/everybodys-magazine-v-30-n-05-1914-05-missing-pp-27-30-33-4-57-8-97-8-ibc-bc_202011/page/96/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Helen Matilda Chaplin, Countess of Radnor, by James Jebusa Shannon
Description |
English: Monochrome reproduction of a portrait of Helen Matilda Chaplin, Countess of Radnor, by James Jebusa Shannon
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Date | Before 1909 |
Source | Catalogue of the pictures in the collection of the Earl of Radnor (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125002729453/page/n247) |
Author | James Jebusa Shannon |
Emerson Parlor Grand Piano
Description |
English: Emerson parlor grand piano, from an 1889 catalogue
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Date | |
Source | Emerson Piano Company catalogue, 1889 (https://archive.org/stream/grandsquareuprig00emer#page/11/mode/1up) |
Author | Anonymous engraver |
Emerson Style 2 Square Piano
Description |
English: Emerson Style 2 Square Piano, from an 1889 catalogue
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Date | |
Source | Emerson Piano Company catalogue, 1889 (https://archive.org/stream/grandsquareuprig00emer#page/12/mode/1up) |
Author | Anonymous engraver |