Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Billy Waters NPG D20528

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by C. Reynolds, after Thomas Lord Busby

Billy Waters was a popular black beggar and entertainer who could commonly be seen entertaining crowds outside the Adelphi Theatre on the Strand in London in the 1780s. Having served in the British Navy during which he lost his leg, he settled with his family in the London parish of St Giles and supplemented his insufficient and diminutive pension by busking and begging. He was a fiddler and singer who was easily recognisable by his wooden-peg leg, naval costume and the feathers in his hat.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.