Saltimbanco or street performer with parrot and Bohemian (Romany or gypsy) woman with tambourine, 16th century. Text describes her as Florentine, in dress with blood tears and hand holding a torch. Taken from MS 44 fonds de la Valliere, Bibliotheque Imperiale. Saltimbanque et Bohemienne, France, XVIe siecle. Chromolithograph by Ferdinand Sere and Auguste Racinet from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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