Young man playing the piano: Did you mean...?

Painted terracotta statuette of a woman playing the tympanon (tambourine), 4th century BCE. Altes Museum, Berlin.

A miniature portrait by Nicholas Hilliard of Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603 CE) playing the lute.

A 2nd-century CE Roman statue group of two sighthounds playing, discovered in 1774 CE in Monte Cagniolo, Italy. The group was once nicknamed "The Townley Greyhounds", after their owner Charles Townley. However, the dogs depicted are not proper...

A fresco of Apollo playing the kithara, from a building in the Forum of Rome. Augustan period. (Museum of the Forum Romanum, Rome)

Red-figured chous (jug). Girl playing with tortoise: in her left hand she holds a white oinochoe; in the right she holds out a tortoise, by a string tied to its hind-leg, to a spaniel to right which looks up at it. 360-350 BCE, Puglia.

There are Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions as well as explanatory diagram and rules for playing the so-called the game of 20-squares (the Royal Game of Ur).This is the front aspect of the clay tablet which shows how the central squares were...

Sard gem engraved with a grasshopper marching to the right, wearing a lion-skin and playing on a lyre. Length: 1 centimetres Height: 1.3 centimetres 1st-3rd centuries CE London, BM, 1814,0704.1447.

Female skeleton playing the guitar, type-metal engraving by José Guadalupe Posada, c. 1890-1910. José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was a Mexican illustrator best known for his satirical depictions of skeletons (calaveras), which often appeared...

The motif of the seated young girl dates back to a late Hellenistic model, which in the Roman version, was supplemented by the game gesture. The knucklebones (astragalus) game are often also depicted on funerary reliefs and the portrait-like...

An illustration from The Libro de los Juegos (13th century CE) that shows a game of chess between a Muslim and a Christian. (Monasterio de El Escorial, Spain)