Ragged musicians and dancers Size:L: 90 x 60cm View of University College

View of University College

remained until 1845

looking across the Serpentine towards Hornsey

the white trousers of a fashionably dressed gentleman are blackened by the sweep's soot bag

The women in blue and purple are wearing fitted coats that match their dresses

Ragged musicians and dancers Size:L: 90 x 60cm View of University CollegeRagged musicians and dancers, 1791. 'The prospect before us (no 1), humanely inscrib'd to all those professors of music and dancing whom the cap may fit'. A group of musicians and dancers, extremely ragged, performing in the street, and receiving alms in the shape of a coin from a sweep's boy and offal from a butcher's roundsman.