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A fisherman's wife from Newhaven selling fish to a man in a market in Edinburgh. Etching by Walter Geikie.

An artist sketching an elderly man with a reclining man looking on. Photo-lithograph after an etching by W. Geikie.

A family group with an old lady, a young woman with a child on her lap and a small boy playing a whistle. Etching by W. Geikie.

A Scottish musical shoemaker: he sits on a bench and contemplates the sole of a shoe he is holding; on the floor and resting against the bench are a violin, a recorder, and a book of music scores. Etching by Walter Geikie.

A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.

An old man sits asleep with his hands clasped while an old lady looks down at something she is holding in her hands. Etching by W. Geikie.

A woman removing something from a man's eye while another man looks on. Etching by W. Geikie.

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A fisherman's wife from Newhaven selling fish to a man in a market in Edinburgh. Etching by Walter Geikie.

An artist sketching an elderly man with a reclining man looking on. Photo-lithograph after an etching by W. Geikie.

A family group with an old lady, a young woman with a child on her lap and a small boy playing a whistle. Etching by W. Geikie.

A Scottish musical shoemaker: he sits on a bench and contemplates the sole of a shoe he is holding; on the floor and resting against the bench are a violin, a recorder, and a book of music scores. Etching by Walter Geikie.

A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.

An old man sits asleep with his hands clasped while an old lady looks down at something she is holding in her hands. Etching by W. Geikie.

A woman removing something from a man's eye while another man looks on. Etching by W. Geikie.

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A fisherman's wife from Newhaven selling fish to a man in a market in Edinburgh. Etching by Walter Geikie.

An artist sketching an elderly man with a reclining man looking on. Photo-lithograph after an etching by W. Geikie.

A family group with an old lady, a young woman with a child on her lap and a small boy playing a whistle. Etching by W. Geikie.

A Scottish musical shoemaker: he sits on a bench and contemplates the sole of a shoe he is holding; on the floor and resting against the bench are a violin, a recorder, and a book of music scores. Etching by Walter Geikie.

A blind fiddler plays to a mixed age audience, among them a dog which is about to be beaten for howling. Etching by W. Geikie.

An old man sits asleep with his hands clasped while an old lady looks down at something she is holding in her hands. Etching by W. Geikie.

A woman removing something from a man's eye while another man looks on. Etching by W. Geikie.