The State Auction Size:M: 75 x 50cm twice the amount originally estimated

twice the amount originally estimated

'A North Country Transfer

women wearing huge over-trimmed hats and and men with their hair shaved at the back but bunched and projecting under one side of their hats

View of St Giles without Cripplegate

the man smokes a clay pipe and bangs the base of a pot or saucepan to attract peoples' attention

The State Auction Size:M: 75 x 50cm twice the amount originally estimated'The State Auction', 1784. William Pitt the Younger, as an auctioneer, disposing of British liberties in the House of Commons. Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, as a porter, is holding up Lot 1, inscribed Rights of the People in 558 vol. A Foxite satire on the struggle between Charles James Fox and Pitt.