Ways and means for 1784 (BM 1868,0808.5110)

Fox and North as itinerant musicians, much caricatured, receive plates of broken victuals from a maidservant. North, very bulky and on a larger scale than Fox, beats a tambourine, he looks downwards, his tongue protruding (or perhaps he has just caught a penny in his mouth).
Fox has a large mechanical organ slung across his shoulder and supported on his knee, his other knee is protected from the cobbles of the street by a small four-legged stool. He holds out his hat to receive the food which the girl, who leans out from a street door, is slipping into it from a plate. 21 January 1784

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