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

A blind hurdy gurdy player and his son and two dancing dogs. Coloured lithograph by White after E.J. Pigal.

A woman sitting in a chair playing the hurdy-gurdy and looking towards a man on her left. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1743, after S. Leclerc.

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.

A barber-surgeon attending to a man's forehead. Oil painting.

People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.

An old man in ragged clothes and a feathery fur cap playing the hurdy gurdy. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.

(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.

A man wearing a cloak and a wide-brimmed hat is carrying a hurdy-gurdy. Etching by R. Blake after J. Callot.

Four men and a woman smoking and drinking in an arbour and listening to a travelling hurdy-gurdy player. Etching by R. Daudet, 1787, after C. Dusart.

A man wearing a cap with a feather in it is playing a hurdygurdy. Etching by D. Deuchar after Adriaen van Ostade.

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A man wearing a cloak and a wide-brimmed hat is carrying a hurdy-gurdy. Etching by R. Blake after J. Callot.

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

People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.

Four men and a woman smoking and drinking in an arbour and listening to a travelling hurdy-gurdy player. Etching by R. Daudet, 1787, after C. Dusart.

A man wearing a cap with a feather in it is playing a hurdygurdy. Etching by D. Deuchar after Adriaen van Ostade.