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A boy with a monkey and a hurdy-gurdy, sitting on the pavement. Engraving by T.L. Sanger.

A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.

Above, a family of street musicians playing the guitar, the triangle and the fiddle; below, five men in military uniforms at table, with a servant bringing in a roast pig. Etching by Ferdinand, King of Portugal, 1844.

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

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.

Four blind men and a boy playing musical instruments and singing. Etching by C. Du Bosc after A. Watteau.

A man is standing on the edge of a market place playing a fiddle with a bow. Etching by D. Deuchar.

A man holding a guitar is leaning against a wall, two children are lying asleep on the ground beside him. Etching by J.J. Martínez Espinosa.

A young man sits on a bench in a Bavarian street playing the zither as he watches a young woman walk past. Etching by Hubert Herkomer.

(Left) an old woman sitting on a stool with a cat and warming her hands at a brazier; (right) an old man playing the hurdy-gurdy. Etching by E. Russell after J. Callot.

Two Indian musicians. Gouache by an Indian artist.

Guillaume de Limoges, a lame street singer. Etching by G. Audran.

A troupe of blind musicians and their dogs confronting a rival street musician and his dog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1828.

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Two Indian musicians. Gouache by an Indian artist.

A boy with a monkey and a hurdy-gurdy, sitting on the pavement. Engraving by T.L. Sanger.

Guillaume de Limoges, a lame street singer. Etching by G. Audran.

Above, a family of street musicians playing the guitar, the triangle and the fiddle; below, five men in military uniforms at table, with a servant bringing in a roast pig. Etching by Ferdinand, King of Portugal, 1844.

A troupe of blind musicians and their dogs confronting a rival street musician and his dog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1828.