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Description: | Travelling child musicians in this picture are entertaining a village audience at Cullercoats, on the North East coast. The boys' feathered hats, green jackets and bagpipes suggest that they are probably from Austria or Germany. Travelling musicians from abroad often visited the coast during summer in the 19th century. The figures in the audience illustrate a range of different ages, characters and reactions - this was a common theme in Victorian painting. The North-East artist Henry Hetherington Emmerson painted many pictures in Cullercoats, where he lived from 1865. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: 1871 | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | Henry Hetherington Emmerson | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/artonline/se... | Go to resource |
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