The ballad singer by Thomas Rowlandson (1789)

Pen and watercolor sketch of a ballad singer in a red cloak singing before a crowd of onlookers, one holding an infant.

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A watercolor and ink drawing shows a ballad singer in a white dress and red hooded cloak, mouth open mid-song, surrounded by a crowd of onlookers.

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1789

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain

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