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.

"The itinerant musician (or, The hurdygurdy player at a cottage). Sm. 56, and Suppl. 23.—Three- quarter-length. A hurdy-gurdy player stands in the right centre, in profile to the left, turning the handle with his left hand. He wears a purple jacket, a short cloak, and a large hat. He is speaking to two children who stand to the left—a little girl in a blue jacket, yellow apron, and white cap, seen from the back, and a boy with a satchel under his arm. Between them is seen a peasant in a brown jacket and red cap, who leans his left elbow on the closed half-door of a cottage and looks out; he holds a clay pipe in his hand, and wears a felt hat. Behind him, in shadow, are a man and woman. Above the door is a small projecting roof overgrown with vine. On both sides of it are windows with small panes."--Hofstede de Groot, loc. cit., describing the painting to which the present print is in the opposite direction