A Sale of English-Beauties in the East Indies

Thomas Rowlandson British
 After James Gillray British
 Publisher Thomas Tegg British

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A reduced copy after Gillray by Rowlandson, originally published in 1786.

A group of English courtesans has just arrived in Calcutta and is being sold by an auctioneer at left.

A Sale of English-Beauties in the East Indies, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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