Identificationtitle(s): auction of prints. A print sale (title on item). Object type: print object number: rp-p-2015-26-1847. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2228, collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 4779. Description: interior of an auction room where a print auction is in progress. In the center of the table sits the auctioneer, hassel hutchins. Opposite him in the shade, his clerk sits behind a desk. The interested parties, some of whom are well-known print dealers and collectors, sit and stand behind long tables. Two holders show a picture and an album. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: thomas rowlandson (mentioned on object). Dating: 1788. Physical features: etching. Material: paper technique: etching. Dimensions: top: h 181 mm × w 270 mm explanation the print may come from the series 'imitations of modern drawings'. Subject: what: art sale, auction of prints, e. G. : engravings, etchings, lithographs, political caricatures and satires. Who: hassel hutchins. Credit line: bequest of mr s. Emmering, amsterdam. Acquisition: bequest 2000. Date: 1788.
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