Two Entertainers

Acrobatics and performance of fun for amusing people in streets and receiving from them applause and reward usually some coppers, was a common feature of late 19th century town life. It was one of the common modes of amusement, at least of the peasantry and urban poor and lower middle class, till the 6th-7th decade of the 20th century. The dancer has disguised himself like a huge bird by putting on him a cover made of multiple and multi-coloured feathers.