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  • A man with a wooden leg sings while he is accompanied by a blind man playing the flute and a dog performing on its hind legs. Pen and ink drawing.

    Reference
    44048i
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  • Billy Waters, a one legged busker, in a crowded London street. Coloured aquatint, 1822.

    Date
    March 1822
    Reference
    1962i
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  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching by J. Callot.

    • Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635
    Reference
    15843i
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  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers performing together. Etching by J. Callot.

    • Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635
    Reference
    15847i
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  • A man plays a tambourine as a bear with its arms held back is encouraged to dance. Watercolour.

    Date
    1800-1899
    Reference
    34334i
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  • A man has two dancing dolls on a board, controlled by a string attached to his leg. Coloured etching.

    Date
    1800-1899
    Reference
    34215i
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  • Champs-Elysées, Paris: people are dancing on stilts to the music of the drum and the violin, watched by passers-by. Aquatint.

    Date
    June 1822
    Reference
    34214i
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  • A singer of tales called Rinaldo, performing to an audience of men seated around him: he reads the story from a book and makes gestures with a stick. Coloured lithograph by Gatti & Dura after Gaet. Dura.

    • Dura, Gaetano
    Reference
    32451i
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  • A man is shown from behind reading a sandwich board attached to the back of the man in front of him, advertising a lottery. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.

    • Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833
    Date
    30 April 1816
    Reference
    44023i
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  • Two Commedia dell'arte street musicians performing together. Etching by J. Callot.

    • Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635
    Reference
    15846i
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