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@oldbookillustrations@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

Street musician.
From "Lives of Famous London Beggars" written & illustrated by John Thomas Smith, London: [1897] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/street-musician/

A sly street musician, pretending to play the violin with the stems of two pipes, is surrounded by a mixed audience of children, dogs, and adults of both sexes. The full caption reads as follows:
   " Street musician, who mimics the notes of the common English birds by means of a folded bit of tin, which is held between the teeth; but in order to engage the attention of the credulous, he pretends to draw his tones from two tobacco pipes."
A sly street musician, pretending to play the violin with the stems of two pipes, is surrounded by a mixed audience of children, dogs, and adults of both sexes. The full caption reads as follows: " Street musician, who mimics the notes of the common English birds by means of a folded bit of tin, which is held between the teeth; but in order to engage the attention of the credulous, he pretends to draw his tones from two tobacco pipes."
A sly street musician, pretending to play the violin with the stems of two pipes, is surrounded by a mixed audience of children, dogs, and adults of both sexes. The full caption reads as follows: " Street musician, who mimics the notes of the common English birds by means of a folded bit of tin, which is held between the teeth; but in order to engage the attention of the credulous, he pretends to draw his tones from two tobacco pipes."
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A sly street musician pretending to play the violin with the stems of two pipes is surrounded by a mixed audience made of children, dogs, and adults of both sexes
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