A print of a beggar musician singing and playing a finely decorated hurdy-gurdy. This print and the following one (RCIN 807483) stem from a genre tradition of the sixteenth century that places such beggars within a moralising context. The hurdy-gurdy was particularly associated with blind beggars who made a living playing in the streets. In this print he is removed from an urban scenario and stands before a background of dense parallel lines, making it appear as if he is on a stage. This print is lettered in the lower left corner: ". Bellange. fecit.". A drawing attributed to Bellange that might be a study for the print survives in a private collection.

This print is inlaid in folio 10 of the Dutch Drolls album (RCIN 970362). This album originally contained 99 prints on 72 folios, with the prints numbered 1-99 in pencil in a nineteenth-century hand on the mount sheet above each print. A number of other prints were added later, mostly on the versos of the existing sheets and on two additional folios at the end of the album (fols 73-74), probably during the nineteenth century.

For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 364.