Listening Collection (page 15)

St Stephen Preaching (detail), mid 15th century. Artist: Fra Angelico
St Stephen Preaching (detail), mid 15th century. St Stephen (dc35), a deacon of the early Christian church in Jerusalem, was found guilty of blasphemy by the Sanhedrin

The Tribute Money, 1560-1568. Artist: Titian
The Tribute Money, 1560-1568. Christ, in a red robe with a blue cloak, is asked by a Pharisee if it is right to pay taxes to the Romans

The Lecture, 1903. Artist: Theo van Rysselberghe
The Lecture, 1903. Van Rysselberghe has reconstructed one of the meetings between a number of Belgian and French artists from different disciplines held in Paris at the house of the prominent poet

The Sermon of Christ at the Genezareth Lake, 1623. Artist: David Vinckboons
The Sermon of Christ at the Genezareth Lake, 1623

Venus and the Lute Player, c1565-1570. Artist: Titian
Venus and the Lute Player, c1565-1570. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

The Seat of Justice in the Parlement of Paris, 1723. Artist: Nicolas Lancret
The Seat of Justice in the Parlement of Paris, 1723. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

Paternal Admonition, 1654-1655. Artist: Gerard Terborch II
Paternal Admonition, 1654-1655. From a private collection

Une Seance en Partie Double, 1871. Satirical cartoon on the subject of the Paris Commune which governed Paris from March to May 1871. From a private collection

The Garden of Eden, c1580. Artist: Jacob de Backer
The Garden of Eden, c1580. From the Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium

English Tea Party with the Prince of Conti at the Temple, 1766. Artist: Michel Barthelemy Ollivier
English Tea Party with the Prince of Conti at the Temple, 1766. The young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is seated at the clavichord at the left of the picture

Feast in the House of Simon, 18th / early 19th century. Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Feast in the House of Simon, 18th/early 19th century. From a private collection

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1759 (1906). Mozarts (1756-1791) first attempt, at the age of three, to play the piano. In the doorway his sister Nannerl and his father Leopold look

Mozart listening to Allegris Miserere, 1771, (1906). On a visit to Rome when he was fourteen, Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

The Vocation of St Nicholas, 1437. Artist: Fra Angelico
The Vocation of St Nicholas, 1437. The birth of St Nicholas; St Nicholas preaching; three poor girls whose dowries he paid to save them from prostitution

Heinrich Schliemann lecturing in London, 1877. German archaeologist Schliemann (1822-1890), lecturing on his excavations at Mycenae in Greece during 1876 to the Society of Antiquaries in their rooms

Thomas Alva Edison, 1888
Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, 1888. Edison (1847-1931) listening to a recording on his phonograph. This is an electric model powered by a bichromate cell (left)

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, 1889
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, [1889]. Laennec (1781-1826) is shown listening to a patients chest at the Necker Hospital, Paris

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, c1906
Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, listening to a recording on an electric model of his phonograph powered by a wet battery, c1906

Thomas Alva Edisons kinetographic theatre, c1892. This combined the recording of sound and vision. From a cigarette card published 1915

Thomas Alva Edisons first Phonograph, 1878. In this model the cylinder on which the sound was recorded had to be rotated by hand. Instrument in recording mode

Making recording on first model of Thomas Edisons Phonograph, c1878

Thomas Edisons Kinetographic Theatre, c1891. In this he combined the recording of sound and vision

Emile Berliners Gramophone, c1888. Top: Recording stylus and mouthpiece. Bottom: Playing a disc

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c1880. Vibrations produced in cone traced on lamp blacked cylinder

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c. 1906
Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c.1906. Plaster of Paris barrel with brass tube at a with hogs bristle attached to trace vibrations produced in AB on lampblacked cylinder C

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, 1872. Tuning fork vibrated by bow or iron rod, and vibration traced on cylinder coated with lampblack

Making a recording with, and listening to, first Edison Phonograph, 1878
First model of Edison Phonograph. Top: Making recording. Bottom: Listening to recording. Paris, April 1878

Communicating by speaking tube, 1882
Speaking tube, 1882. A cross-section of a ship, showing how communication between the bridge (top) and the rest of the vessel took place

Ader telephone system, 1881. The man on the left is making a call which passes through the operator at the exchange, centre, to the recipient on the right

Communication by speaking tube, c1850. A waiter serving clients in a restaurant, speaking to chefs at work in the kitchen on the floor below, using a speaking tube

John Tyndall lecturing on electromagnetism at the Royal Institution, London. May 1870. Irish-born British physicist Tyndall (1820-1893)

Michael Faraday lecturing on electricity and magnetism, Royal Institution, London, 1846
Michael Faraday lecturing on electricity and magnetism, Royal Institution, London, 23 January 1846. Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century

Greek Vase Painting of a Banquet, found in Etruscan tomb, Villa Giulia, Rome, c6th century BC

Italian earthenware plate showing Pan piping to two shepherds. Artist: Maestro Benedetto
Depiction of Pan piping to two shepherds on a dish from Siena painted by Maestro Benedotto, from the British Museums collection

The Annunciation with Flowers, 17th or early 18th century. Artist: Carlo Maratta
The Annunciation with Flowers, 17th or early 18th century. Found in the collection of the State M Ciurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania

The Annunciation, 17th century. Artist: Eustache Le Sueur
The Annunciation, 17th century. Found in the collection of the State Art Museum, Tula, Russia

St Paul the Apostle preaching to the Athenians, c1860. From the Bible (Acts)

Ezekiel prophesying to the elders of Israel while captive in Babylon, c600 BC (16th century). Ezekiel was one of four great Old Testament prophets of Israel and contemporary with Daniel

Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, philosopher and mystic, telling his grandchildren a story, c1890-1910. From the British Museum

Three generations listening to a reading from the family Bible, c1800. Artist: Maria Spilsbury
Three generations listening to a reading from the family Bible, c1800. Grandparents, parents and two children sit at the table, and a baby lies in a basketwork cradle

Charles Frederick MacKenzie, British missionary, preaching to African children, 1854-1862 (c1880)
Charles Frederick MacKenzie, British clergyman and missionary, preaching to African children, 1854-1862 (c1880). Mackenzie (1825-1862)

Inauguration of President Lincoln, Washington DC, 4 March 1861. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) delivering his inaugural address as President in front of the Capitol

Queen Victoria listening to a dispatch from the front line during the Boer War, 1899-1901. She is aided by her attendant Abdul Karim (The Munshi)

William Pitt the Younger, English statesman, 1793. Pitt (1759-1806) addressing the House of Commons, 1793. Engraving after a painting by Anton Hickel

A visit to a fortune teller, early 19th century. Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
A visit to a fortune teller, early 19th century. Kate and Sue having their fortunes read in the cards (Cartomancy) by an old woman

French citizens listening to a broadcast by Vichy deputy premier Admiral Darlan, 23 May, 1941
French citizens listening to a broadcast by Vichy deputy premier Admiral Francois Darlan, 23 May, 1941

The Annunciation, 1472-1475. Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
The Annunciation, 1472-1475. The Annunciation is the revelation to Mary, the mother of Jesus by the archangel Gabriel that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God

Champetre Concert, 1715. Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau
Champetre Concert, 1715. From the collection of the Musee des Beaux-Arts d Angers

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