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Musicians, Black

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  • A medicine show; a moustachioed charlatan holds up a phial, a miserable patient sits in the carriage and a black man in uniform bangs the drums. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison.
  • Billy Waters, a one-legged busker. Coloured engraving by T.L. Busby.
  • A young black man playing the violin for a white family in their house: a man, his wife and their two children are dancing by the fireplace while an old lady is seated on a bench. Colour lithograph by Jas. F. Queen, 1877, after A. Dircks.
  • Billy Waters, a one legged busker, in a crowded London street. Coloured aquatint, 1822.
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    Billy Waters, a one legged busker, in a crowded London street. Coloured aquatint, 1822.

    | Date: March 1822 | Reference: 1962i
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    A medicine show; a moustachioed charlatan holds up a phial, a miserable patient sits in the carriage and a black man in uniform bangs the drums. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison.

    Frison, Gustave, 1850- | Reference: 16870i
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    A young black man playing the violin for a white family in their house: a man, his wife and their two children are dancing by the fireplace while an old lady is seated on a bench. Colour lithograph by Jas. F. Queen, 1877, after A. Dircks.

    Dircks, Auguste, 1806-1871. | Date: 1877 | Reference: 577416i
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    Billy Waters, a one-legged busker. Coloured engraving by T.L. Busby.

    Busby, Thomas Lord. | Reference: 1938i
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