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  • Two Commedia dell'arte street musicians performing together. Etching by J. Callot.
  • A street performer accompanied by two musicians. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A troupe of blind musicians and their dogs confronting a rival street musician and his dog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1828.
  • India: a street conjuror with his musicians, putting a man inside a net and a wicker basket. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Nithsdale, Scotland: people gather in a village street to watch as musicians play and others dance. Etching by W. Richardson after D.O. Hill.
  • 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.
  • The enraged musician: a street crowd with a ballad singer is creating such a noise that the musician in the window has to put his hands over his ears. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1741.
  • Street scene with musician playing a saurinda, a type of violin, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • The enraged musician: a street crowd with a ballad singer is creating such a noise that the musician in the window has to put his hands over his ears. Engraving by J. June after W. Hogarth.
  • An organ-grinder is carrying a very large organ down the street as he passes a fellow musician with a much smaller instrument and a monkey; representing evolution by natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • A man is playing a type of flute and a boy is playing a drum. Etching by J.J. Martínez Espinosa.
  • A man holding a guitar is leaning against a wall, two children are lying asleep on the ground beside him. Etching by J.J. Martínez Espinosa.
  • A blind singer wearing a long cloak is playing the guitar. Etching by Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla after Manuel de la Cruz.
  • A man is standing on the edge of a market place playing a fiddle with a bow. Etching by D. Deuchar.
  • A man playing a barrel organ. Wood engraving by H. Kaeseberg after L. Knaus.
  • A boy with a monkey and a hurdy-gurdy, sitting on the pavement. Engraving by T.L. Sanger.
  • Four blind men and a boy playing musical instruments and singing. Etching by C. Du Bosc after A. Watteau.
  • Rome: a man leans on a stone pillar watching and listening as one girl plays the tambourine and another plays the guitar. Lithograph by T. Allom.
  • A young man sits on a bench in a Bavarian street playing the zither as he watches a young woman walk past. Etching by Hubert Herkomer.
  • A musician playing the clarinet outside a town-house is given threepence by a footman and asked to move on, but the musician asks for more money. Steel engraving after R. Seymour.
  • 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.
  • (Left) an old woman sitting on a stool with a cat and warming her hands at a brazier; (right) an old man playing the hurdy-gurdy. Etching by E. Russell after J. Callot.
  • Guillaume de Limoges, a lame street singer. Etching by G. Audran.
  • A man is playing a fiddle as a group of men and women dance around the equestrian statue of Henri IV on the Pont Neuf in Paris. Aquatint with etching, 1822.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • 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.
  • A futuristic vision: technology is over-sophisticated, and the masses devote themselves to intellectual pursuits, while the basic needs of society are neglected. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828, after F.A.