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Romanies

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  • A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.
  • Two huntsmen in a clearing are surrounded by gypsies who read their palms as a decoy for stealing their belongings. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after B. North.
  • A group of female travellers washing and taking care of a new born baby while the mother recovers in a tent. Coloured aquatint by C. Rugendas after G. Rugendas I, 1702.
  • Gypsies living on the hillside outside a tavern; two men are on horseback, while others are carrying baskets of food, cooking and tending to children. Engraving by J. Moyreau after P. Wouwermans.
  • Mary Squires the fortune teller foretells the future to Sir John Hill: she indicates that she has support from the Lord Mayor of London. Etching, 1753.
  • A female gipsy breast feeding her child. Mezzotint by H. Meyer, 1817, after D. Wilkie.
  • Margaret Finch, aged 108. Engraving by J. Sharp.
  • 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 group of female travellers washing and taking care of a new born baby while the mother recovers in a tent. Coloured aquatint by C. Rugendas after G. Rugendas I, 1702.
  • Travelling gypsies. Etching by Jacques Callot.
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