Traffic
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Traffic

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · December 16, 1794

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Two Jewish clothesmen are securing a parcel of cast-off garments at the door of a highly respectable mansion, whereat a buxom housemaid is disposing of her master's old apparel. In the street beyond is shown the milkman adding up his score a mode of calculation prevalent in the artist's day, although it has become obsolete long enough ago in the metropolis.

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