The figures are cut to silhouette and pasted on grey paper sheets. The accompanying text reads, 'Pellevan or mountebank. Worship Mahomet in general. Live by exhibiting tygers, bears, snakes &c., wives go about with them.' The three people from left to right: a drummer, a man with a snake around his neck and a black ram; a woman carrying wicker baskets and sacks on a panier.