from a series of Rowlandson’s satirical take on a popular theme in English printmaking, depicting the street vendors of the day, this one featuring a rustic goose seller taking a basket door to door in a London street of fine houses with a hackney carriage passing by, holding up a goose in each hand to an elderly couple on their doorstep, the mortar and pestle above the lintel identifying them as apothecaries, as they sniff another goose with expressions of deep displeasure,
original hand-coloured aquatint, 330 x 260 mm. (13 x 10 1/4 in), trimmed to the broad aquatint border, as often found, slight browning and a few spots, [BM Satires 9475],