Wife being sold at Smithfield Market, London Berkshire View of Greenwich from the

View of Greenwich from the hill in Greenwich Park

An obese alderman eats gluttonously

now Clerkenwell Road

scene under Covent Garden piazza

Ludgate was demolished in 1760

Wife being sold at Smithfield Market, London Berkshire View of Greenwich from theWife 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