A Company Making Music - Public domain image related to music prformance, engraving

Dutch (artist nationality)
draughtsman, engraver, print publisher and painter (artist role)
Recto: bottom center: (within image) Crispin de Pass inuent . excudit . ; bottom: (beneath image, in Latin) Concentu vario mentesque auresque fruuntur, / Quas rapit ad Musas melle refertus amor. / Gratus is est, blanda qui carmina voce susurrat, / Atque simul cythara dulcia plectra mouet. (inscription)
Engraving. (medium)
Fine condition. Two light brown stains, one upper left corner, the other in center, on lace ruff of woman playing keyboard instrument. (condition)
The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California, 19 Mar. 1935. (provenance)
Flute, Virginal, Lute (instrument)
late 16th-early 17th century (century)
Works of art - - Groups of Musicians Indoors (miller category)

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.