Street entertainers in Nottingham: James Burne, called Shelford Tommy, a ventriloquist (left) and Charley, a man playing a shawm (right). Etching with aquatint, 1797.

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[1797]
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32455i
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Street entertainers in Nottingham: James Burne, called Shelford Tommy, a ventriloquist (left) and Charley, a man playing a shawm (right). Etching with aquatint, 1797. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[London] : [B. & J. White], [1797]

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1 print : etching, with aquatint ; platemark 15.9 x 20 cm

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Ventriloquist. Musician. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely ways and destiny obscure. Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor! Gray. Bears numbers: v. 2 p. 149

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Wellcome Collection 32455i

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