A Fight in the Tree-tops
Group of Coyotes
Head of Prong-horn Antelope
A squirrel
Head of Royal Bengal Tiger
Skeleton of an American Bison
Paring Down a Large Mammal SkiN
Holding the bow
Position of the left hand and the left arm
The violin is held with the left hand and rests on the left collar bone. The instrument must be horizontal. To give a firm grip, a small pad is often placed between the violin and the left shoulder. A chin-rest screwed to the ribs, and covering a part of the upper table, is also to be recommended. The chin-rest serves also to protect the varnish. To prove that the violin is held securely and well, the left hand may be removed.
Bowing
Bowing
Constituent parts of the violin - Exterior
The most important part is the upper table or belly (a). The other parts are the ribs or sides (b), the back (c), the neck (d), the head comprising the scroll and peg box (e), the pegs (f), the finger board (g), the bridge (h), the tailpiece (i), the button[3] (k), the nut (l), and the f or sound-holes (m). The interior of the violin contains the soundpost and the bass bar.
Rabab
. Rabab—Arabian bowed instrument (of Persian origin). Pictures of Indian and Persian bowed instruments exist, but the period when they were employed is not exactly known.
Raba—Indian violin
Pictures of Indian and Persian bowed instruments exist, but the period when they were employed is not exactly known.
Constituent parts of the bow
Constituent parts of the violin - Interior
The bow
This received its name from its ancient form, which has undergone many alterations before the present form was arrived at
Staircase of a Tower
Statue in Alabaster of Philip Chabot, Admiral of France, by Jean Cousin
St. Paul
St. Timothy the Martyr, Coloured Glass of the end of the Eleventh Century
St. Ursula
St. Hubert praying before the Cross borne by a Stag
St. John the Baptist preaching in the Desert
St. Julien and St. Basilissa, his wife
St. Catherine on her Knees
St. Eloi, Patron of Goldsmiths and Farriers
Seal of the University of Oxford, in which is a Book bound with Corners and Clasps
Seal of the University of Paris (Fourteenth Century)
Sketch of the Virgin of Alba
Scribe or Copyist, in his Work-room
Seal of the King of La Basoche
Restoration of a Roman Triumphal Arch
Saloon of the Schools, Oxford
Portrait of the Pope Sylvester I
Princess Sibylla of Saxony
Remains of the Church of Mouen, in Normandy
Portrait of Gutenberg, from an Engraving of the Sixteenth Century
Portrait of John Lutma, Goldsmith of Groningen
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci
Phalaris
Pointed Window with Stone Seats
Porte de Hal, Brussels. (Fourteenth Century.)
Notre-Dame la Grande of Poitiers (Twelfth Century)
Notre-Dame, Paris (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries)
Notre-Dame, Rouen, ogival style. (Thirteenth Century.)
Miniature taken from the 'Virgil' in the Library of the Vatican, Rome
Miniature, taken from Dante’s 'Paradise'
Miniature taken from 'Les Femmes Illustres'
Miniature taken from a Missal of the Beginning of the Eleventh Century
Miniature taken from the 'Roman de Fauvel'
Miniature in the 'Livre d’Heures'
Miniature of the Ninth Century
Miniature of the Psalter of John
Miniature drawn with the pen, taken from a Bible of the Eleventh Century
Miniature from the Book of the Gospels of Charlemagne
Miniature from the Prayer-book of Anne de Bretagne, representing the Archangel St. Michael
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Mark of William Eustace (1512), Bookseller and Binder, Paris
Mayence Cathedral. Rhenish Norman. (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries)