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Hurdy-gurdy

Images

  • A boy with a monkey and a hurdy-gurdy, sitting on the pavement. Engraving by T.L. Sanger.
  • A blind hurdy gurdy player and his son and two dancing dogs. Coloured lithograph by White after E.J. Pigal.
  • A woman sitting in a chair playing the hurdy-gurdy and looking towards a man on her left. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1743, after S. Leclerc.
  • A hurdy-gurdy player standing by the door to a house; the man in the house smokes a pipe at the door, and two children look on. Mezzotint after A. van Ostade.
  • People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
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Catalogue

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    A man wearing a cloak and a wide-brimmed hat is carrying a hurdy-gurdy. Etching by R. Blake after J. Callot.

    Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 34032i
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    A boy with a monkey and a hurdy-gurdy, sitting on the pavement. Engraving by T.L. Sanger.

    Sanger, T.L. | Reference: 29494i
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    People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.

    Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850. | Date: 1827 | Reference: 138i
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    Four men and a woman smoking and drinking in an arbour and listening to a travelling hurdy-gurdy player. Etching by R. Daudet, 1787, after C. Dusart.

    Dusart, Cornelis, 1660-1704. | Date: [1787] | Reference: 3006309i
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    A man wearing a cap with a feather in it is playing a hurdygurdy. Etching by D. Deuchar after Adriaen van Ostade.

    Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685. | Date: [1802] | Reference: 34007i
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