Jack Rome, The Organ Grinder

Jack Rome, The Organ GrinderThis characterful drypoint etching by Uncle Jack Rome depicts an organ grinder and a monkey. Organ grinders were street performers that operated a barrel organ usually by turning a crank. They were a frequent sight during the 19th and early 20th century and often itinerants or vagabonds. Victorian literature often portrays them cynically as lower class gentlemen of ill repute but later depictions tend to describe them in a charming, almost romantic,

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An atmospheric early 20th-century oil on canvas by Danish artist

which is four years earlier than the portrait of the bonneted lady

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435 achieved for ‘Jysk Dragon I Fuld Fart

Several articles have been written regarding his distinguished career and controversial lifestyle

worn by years of use

she fled to Sweden following the German occupation of Denmark

confident mark

a series of hills appear lighter with every degree of separation

which was often accompanied by side-whiskers and moustaches

Since 1822