Wife being sold at Smithfield Market, London Berkshire scene under Covent Garden piazza

scene under Covent Garden piazza

looking up the River Thames

Newington Butts and Newington Turnpike

c1824' Shows a group of amputees

Ludgate was demolished in 1760

Wife being sold at Smithfield Market, London Berkshire scene under Covent Garden piazzaWife being sold at Smithfield Market, London, c1820. A rowdy scene at Smithfield cattle market with the wife for sale tied by a rope around her waist to a rail in the centre. She doesn't seem unduly concerned at the prospect of being sold and stands with her legs apart, hands on one hip. A man brandishing an ale mug dances beside her; the man on the right possibly her husband holds up one hand for attention. At left a chimney sweep empties soot on the