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  • A man begging for alms at the side of a road is holding out his cap to a traveller on horseback. Engraving by James Peake, 1777, after J. Courtois, il Borgognone.
  • An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animal's bladder. Drypoint by L. Flameng.
  • A physician examining a gypsy child with a stethoscope outside a tent on the side of the road. Halftone by Swain after W. Small, 1898.
  • A forest of doum palms (Hyphaene thebaica) in French Sudan, with a travelling group of men and horses. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.
  • Two travellers walking through a forest are alarmed to see armed men following them; advertising Phosphatine Falières infant food. Colour photorelief by Devambez after M. Leloir.
  • A doum palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) in Nubia sheltering three people. Wood engraving by Faguet, c. 1867.
  • A procession of travelling donkeys with saddle-bags and nose-bags. Lithograph after J. Janson, the elder.
  • A travelling chiropodist tending to a male patient's foot, Beijing. Wood engraving by T.H. Hildibrand after E. Ronjat after J. Thomson.
  • A group of itinerant perfomers on stage at a market, attempting to sell some medicines as well as entertain. Engraving by F.A. David after K. Dujardin.
  • Three vignettes of people promoting the use of 'Pears soap'. Photomechanical reproduction after D.E. Wyund.
  • A French politician as a quack doctor wearing a feathered head-dress, holding a tooth and staff in the air and exclaiming to an audience that it is better to extract than to cure. Colour wood engraving (?) by Lefman after A. Gill, 1873.