Jun 07, 2017 - Sale 2450

Sale 2450 - Lot 402

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ROWLANDSON, THOMAS. Cries of London. Together three hand-colored aquatint plates by Merke on "Russell 1798" watermarked wove paper. Each approximately 18 1/4x13 1/4 inches sheet size, wide margins; faint mat staining. London: R. Ackerman, 1799

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London criers or street peddlers, represented in typical Rowlandson fashion hinting on the side of lascivious: No. 4. Do you want any brick-dust. BM Satires 9477 No. 5. Water Cresses, come buy my Water Cresses. BM Satires 9478 No. 6. All a growing, a growing, heres Flowers for your Gardens. BM Satires 9479.