Title and imprint information from British Museum online catalog.
Above the design "A little Music à la Françoise--." Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Lettered with artist's name and publication line "London published Septr. 18 1818 by G Humphrey nepew [sic] & successor to the late Mrs. H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street." Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Library's copy is trimmed within plate mark and lacks title and imprint information.
A street scene, with the railing and ground-floor of a substantial London house as background. A man turns the handle of an orgue de barbarie slung from his neck, while he sings; with him are two women, one sings, a tambourine in her hands, the other plays a fiddle. All are neatly dressed, the women have coloured scarves round their high coiffures, and wear long ear-rings. All three have a general resemblance to the Italian witnesses of prints of 1820. The spectators are a pugnacious-looking butcher with meat-tray and bull-dog, a dustman with his bell under his arm, a fat fishwoman with a basket on her head, a ragged boy with a hoop. Other persons walk along the pavement behind the performers; an apple-woman looking over her shoulder pushes her barrow into a lady, while a little chimney-sweeper steals her apples. Two dandies and a lady are on the extreme right. At an open window a fat woman listens to the music and coquettes with a dandy. Cf. British Museum online catalog.