The statue to be disposed of.

Thomas Rowlandson

The statue to be disposed of.

London, Thomas Tegg March 12^th 1809

Etching

Original hand colouring

345 x 245 mm

£250

The Duke of York, in uniform and wearing his cocked hat, but without a sword, stands in back view on a low rectangular pedestal facing the corner of Mrs. Clarke’s house in ‘Gloucester Place’ [cf. No. 11222, &c.]. The door is partly visible on the extreme left with a door-plate inscribed ‘[Cla]rke’. On the wall facing the Duke is a placard: ‘The Statue on the outside having been thorougly repaired and white Wash’d is to be sold by private Contract—for farther particulars enquire within’. On the right a billposter is putting up a second placard: ‘Johnstons Cheap Caricature Warehouse N° 101 Cheapside A New Caricature on Mrs C——ke every Day Price One Shilling & Two each’. Beside him a newsboy blows his horn.