About A Girl Buying a Ballad

A Girl Buying a Ballad is a 1778 genre painting by the English artist Henry Walton. It features a young woman purchasing the sheet music for a ballad from a street seller. It was a popular image and became the subject of several popular, cheaply-produced prints. The portrait of a general visible was that of Sir William Howe, a British commander in the American War of Independence.

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Henry Walton via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

A Girl Buying a Ballad

painting by Henry Walton

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