Johnny playing his flute at a sheep-shearing festival, surrounded by dancing country girls. Shepherds shear sheep in a barn and wash them in a pond. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax, Ackermann, London, 1822.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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