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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.
  • Margaret Finch, aged 108. Line engraving.
  • A family of gypsies sit in their camp with a child they have stolen. Engraving by W. & F. Holl, 1840, after F.P. Stephanoff.
  • Charlotte Stanley, a beautiful gypsy. Line engraving by J.H. Robinson after Sir G. Hayter.
  • David Teniers has a gipsy fortune-teller read the palm of his wife. Engraving by L. Surugue, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Mary Squires, a gypsy renowned for her ugliness. Engraving.
  • Gypsies in Spain (?), three views showing aspects of itinerant life. Lithograph.
  • A female gipsy breast feeding her child. Mezzotint by H. Meyer, 1817, after D. Wilkie.
  • A procession of travelling donkeys with saddle-bags and nose-bags. Lithograph after J. Janson, the elder.
  • An old fortune-teller is looking at a young woman's palm. Engraving, 1670/1700.
  • A itinerant bag-pipe player and his son, resting at the side of the road. Coloured lithograph, c.1850 (?).
  • A gipsy woman, advertising Gipsy Queen Hygiene Shoes. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • An episode in 'Rookwood', a novel by W. Harrison Ainsworth: Luke Bradley, who is threatening Eleanor Mowbray with a dagger, is himself threatened by Ranulph Rookwood with a sword, but Ranulph is suddenly restrained by Dick Turpin. Line engraving by W. Greatbach after J. Cawse, 1837.
  • A travelling gypsy family enjoying a rest and a meal of soup, bread and wine. Engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.