The tambourine; a military band joined by a woman with her skirts about her waist, sitting on the knee of a man playing a fife and seated on a large drum, the woman holding a tambourine above her head and tapping it with her right hand; she gazes up at a row of three caricatured male musicians who stand behind at left, one with a pipe, another with a horn, the third a turbaned black man with cymbals, all three presenting erect members; a fifth man beyond at right blowing a trumpet and a sketchy figure behind him, a small boy, nude and playing the triangle, in foreground right; at foreground left a group of objects including a gun, satchel, flask and glass. Etching with stipple. Date: 1790-1810 (c.). Dimensions: Height: 214 mm (trimmed); Width: 160 mm (trimmed). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Print (BM 1977,U.568)
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