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  • A medicine show; a moustachioed charlatan holds up a phial, a miserable patient sits in the carriage and a black man in uniform bangs the drums. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison.
  • Billy Waters, a one-legged busker. Coloured engraving by T.L. Busby.
  • A young black man playing the violin for a white family in their house: a man, his wife and their two children are dancing by the fireplace while an old lady is seated on a bench. Colour lithograph by Jas. F. Queen, 1877, after A. Dircks.
  • Billy Waters, a one legged busker, in a crowded London street. Coloured aquatint, 1822.