Sujet

Ragged musicians and dancers, 1791. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson

Légende

Ragged musicians and dancers, 1791. 'The prospect before us (no 1), humanely inscrib'd to all those professors of music and dancing whom the cap may fit'. A group of musicians and dancers, extremely ragged, performing in the street, and receiving alms in the shape of a coin from a sweep's boy and offal from a butcher's roundsman.

Date

1791

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM19A99_115

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

24,0Mo (1,5Mo) / 30,4cm x 19,8cm / 3595 x 2336 (300dpi)

Mots clés

road England people job music street arts dance country playing entertainment musician occupation dancing British English dancer lane avenue performance performer poor poverty location century musical instrument Britain profession cello violin violinist concept performing arts B&W cartoon MONOCHROME stringed instrument RAGGED fiddle black & white black and white B W fiddler 18th century cellist Eighteenth Century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery street entertainer etching satire Thomas Rowlandson Rowlandson Thomas