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- Creator:
- Sears, Robert, active 1800- printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1828?]
- Call Number:
- 828.00.00.117
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A poor family in rags sing on a city streets to earn money. The man, a veteran with a peg leg, plays the violin; his uniform is patched up. The boy wears no shoes and a coat too big for him; he holds out a hat to collect the money. The woman wears a ragged dress and a patched cloak covering a baby on her back; she carries a basket with loaded with the broadsides for sale
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Date of publication inferred from a "Novr. 1828" manuscript note on an impression of a print entitled "My girl," likewise designed by Mercer and published by Smyth and Parsey; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 828.11.00.01. An apparent companion to that print, entitled "My boy," is assigned a date range of 1825-1835 in the British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1905,0822.4)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Published by T. Smyth & sold by A. Parsey, Burlington Arcade
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, Families, Poor persons, Singing, Violins, Peg legs, Disabled veterans, Military uniforms, and Street vendors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The ballad singers [graphic]