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  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers performing together. Etching by J. Callot.
  • Two performing street entertainers carrying bells and performing on the street. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Street entertainers in Nottingham: James Burne, called Shelford Tommy, a ventriloquist (left) and Charley, a man playing a shawm (right). Etching with aquatint, 1797.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching by J. Callot.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching after J. Callot.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching by J. Callot.
  • Old Harry, a street entertainer. Line engraving by R. Graves.
  • A street entertainer with his performing bear. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A street entertainer performing a puppet show. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A street entertainer with his performing monkeys and goat. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A street entertainer making a bear perform. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A street entertainer holding his performing poodle on a leash. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A street entertainer makes two monkeys on a lead, dance to music as part of an act. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A street entertainer makes two sloth bears on a lead, dance to music as part of an act. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A Chinese puppeteer standing on a stool, with a miniature stage balanced above him, body screened, except for feet, entertaining a boy in the street. Coloured stipple engraving by Dadley after Pu-Qua.
  • A man has two dancing dolls on a board, controlled by a string attached to his leg. Coloured etching.
  • A man has an open box with figures in it resting on a chair, young children are crowding round to see the show. Mezzotint after E. van Heemskerck..
  • Looking at a Peep show in the street, Peking
  • Looking at a Peep show in the street, Peking
  • A singer of tales called Rinaldo, performing to an audience of men seated around him: he reads the story from a book and makes gestures with a stick. Coloured lithograph by Gatti & Dura after Gaet. Dura.
  • A man plays a tambourine as a bear with its arms held back is encouraged to dance. Watercolour.
  • Champs-Elysées, Paris: people are dancing on stilts to the music of the drum and the violin, watched by passers-by. Aquatint.
  • A man with a wooden leg sings while he is accompanied by a blind man playing the flute and a dog performing on its hind legs. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A chained bear being made to dance by a man holding a stick, accompanied by a piper and watched by a crowd. Lithograph by Roche, 1817.
  • An old man in a top hat sitting in a wooden cart with wheels that resembles a coffin, pointing at a passage in the book he is reading. Etching by J.T. Smith.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street musicians performing together. Etching by J. Callot.
  • A man is shown from behind reading a sandwich board attached to the back of the man in front of him, advertising a lottery. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Billy Waters, a one-legged busker. Coloured engraving by T.L. Busby.
  • Billy Waters, a one legged busker, in a crowded London street. Coloured aquatint, 1822.
  • Children are crowding around a man with a large box which has a cylinder on the top with an animal with a large tail in it. Coloured etching.