🎵 Welsh Music Archive 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿さんのイラストまとめ

Katherine Philips [1631-1664] was an Anglo-Welsh poet who wrote poetry about her ‘romantic friendships.’

This blog by Mair Jones includes 14 key figures in Welsh LGBT+ history who can be researched at @NLWArchives.
@QueerWelsh
#lgbtq #LGBTHM22 https://t.co/J6JovLIqbq

Welsh Traditional music and folk music archives.

Find out about the collections at the National Library of Wales here:
https://t.co/ydED1veExw

More musicians from the drawing volumes of Delamotte.

The #fiddle suffered the same persecution by religious leaders of the Methodist revivals of the 18th -19th centuries as did the #harp, and the status of the instrument was never raised above that of the alehouse.

Scotch beggars, 1820.
George Orleans Delamotte (1809-1830) DV271

Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1817) painted these two portraits of John Smith, the Blind Harper of Conway, in 1793. #harp

1. Oil painting of John Smith "with Penillion Singers". (NLW 6043492 )

2. NLW Framed works of art collection, PB08490 .

This man playing the fiddle is described as 'An Irishman going to Cork May 1819', probably in Swansea.

Click here to see the whole sketchbook online:
https://t.co/dfywzTYOXF

This harpist is described as 'Matthews blind harper' by George O. Delamotte.

He also painted a portrait of 'old John, servant at Aberpergwm', home of the musician and folk song collector Maria Jane Williams.

Edward Jones, 'Bardd y Brenin'.

☀️Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards ... (1784, 1794 and 1825 editions)

☀️The Bardic Museum, of primitive British literature ... (1802)

☀️Hên Ganiadau Cymru. Cambro-British melodies ... (1825)

Now online!
https://t.co/ydED1veExw

Music manuscripts originating from Llanover, [1830x1871], containing folk tunes, some with words.
Some are in the hand of Augusta Hall, and include tunes which were published in Maria Jane Williams, Ancient and National Airs of Gwent and Morganwg (1844).
https://t.co/9L7eBwFbAe

Portrait of a Young Girl in Welsh Costume with a Harp thought to be Augusta Charlotte Elizabeth Hall, d.1912, daughter of Lady Llanover.
Unknown artist c.1836, oil on canvas @CamUniMusic @artukdotorg #harp