Title
A Sale of English-Beauties in the East Indies by Thomas Rowlandson
Year/Period
c1810
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Image size: 24.0 x 34.7 cm,
Frame size: 49.0 x 50.0 x 1.0 cm
Frame size: 49.0 x 50.0 x 1.0 cm
Accession No.
2018-00689
Collection of
This is a caricature by Thomas Rowlandson, based closely on an earlier work of the same title by James Gillray. Newly arrived women, probably courtesans, are shown being assessed and auctioned in British India, with some having been rejected and led toward a door reading "Warehouse for unsaliable (sic) goods from Europe".