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Street musicians

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  • A boy with a monkey and a hurdy-gurdy, sitting on the pavement. Engraving by T.L. Sanger.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • Above, a family of street musicians playing the guitar, the triangle and the fiddle; below, five men in military uniforms at table, with a servant bringing in a roast pig. Etching by Ferdinand, King of Portugal, 1844.
  • Street entertainers in Nottingham: James Burne, called Shelford Tommy, a ventriloquist (left) and Charley, a man playing a shawm (right). Etching with aquatint, 1797.
  • 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.
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Catalogue

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    Two Indian musicians. Gouache by an Indian artist.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 778057i
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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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    Guillaume de Limoges, a lame street singer. Etching by G. Audran.

    Audran, Gérard, 1640-1703. | Date: [between 1693 and 1695] | Reference: 323i
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    Above, a family of street musicians playing the guitar, the triangle and the fiddle; below, five men in military uniforms at table, with a servant bringing in a roast pig. Etching by Ferdinand, King of Portugal, 1844.

    Fernando II, King, consort of Maria II, Queen of Portugal, 1816-1885. | Date: 1843-1844 | Reference: 29472i
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    A troupe of blind musicians and their dogs confronting a rival street musician and his dog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1828.

    Baptiste, Sylvestre, 1791-1859. | Date: 1828 | Reference: 16519i
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