Street entertainers in Nottingham: James Burne, called Shelford Tommy, a ventriloquist (left) and Charley, a man playing a shawm (right). Etching with aquatint, 1797.

[London] : [B. & J. White], [1797]

1 print : etching, with aquatint ; platemark 15.9 x 20 cm

Ventriloquist. Musician. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely ways and destiny obscure. Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor! Gray. Bears numbers: v. 2 p. 149

Wellcome Collection 32455i