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Picture No 10529741
Date 1825
Description Blind Hannah Brentford 1838
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Hannah Brentford, blind musician of Bunhill-row, shown here aged 24 giving a street performance of hymns, accompanied by her violin. Blinded from the age of two by smallpox, she supports herself and her aged mother on the alms of passers by in the streets of Finsbury, London.
Source Engraving in 'The Every-Day Book and Table Book', 'Hone's Works', volume III, page 222
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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