A print sale

Title:: A print sale
Description:: The rooms of an old auctioneer, where night sales of pictures, drawings, and prints, were held. The auctioneer is seated under a candelabra, at his desk, which is placed upon a circle of boards running round the apartment, and forming a trestle for the display of engravings. The customers, connoisseurs, collectors, artists, &c., are seated on the outside of the circle, and on either side of the seller. The sale-clerk, and the men who are showing the lots, are in the space within the centre.
Artist:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Name on Item:: Rowlandson 1788 Del + Sc.
Date:: 1788
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Etchings
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:: Rowlandson's Book: Sketches and Studies
Subjects:: Sales personnel
Prints
Art dealers
Extent:: 1 print : etching ; sheet 19 x 28 cm
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Notes:: Title from catalogue raisonné.
Grego, I, p. 241
Notes (date):: Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):: Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Notes (object):: One of 32 prints bound in "Rowlandson's Book: Sketches and Studies, Tomas Rowlandson sculp, 1789. Gainsborough, Barrett, Gilpin, Wheatly Wigstead, Rowlandson delin." This volume was Rowlandson's own copy. Page 20. On the same sheet as "Luxury."
Identifier:: 18_03_000640
Barcode:: 36666003811540