Wife being sold at Smithfield Market, London Size:S: 60 x 45cm The River Thames is crowded

The River Thames is crowded with colourful barges and steamboats

Showing an improvement proposal for sea-water swimming pools

Charles Parnell and WH Smith at the chess board

The Blue Boar Inn

Wife being sold at Smithfield Market, London Size:S: 60 x 45cm The River Thames is crowdedWife being sold at Smithfield Market, London, c1820. A rowdy scene at Smithfield cattle market with the wife for sale tied by a rope around her waist to a rail in the centre. She doesn't seem unduly concerned at the prospect of being sold and stands with her legs apart, hands on one hip. A man brandishing an ale mug dances beside her; the man on the right possibly her husband holds up one hand for attention. At left a chimney sweep empties soot on the