Bill Sticker

by William Henry Pyne

$200 · Offered by Argosy Book Store

London: William Miller, 1805. Hand-colored aquatint engraving. Image measures 11 1/2 x 9 1/8 . From Pyne's series The Costume of Great Britain , this aquatint depicts a man posting a lottery advertisement over layers of previously posted ads. The bill-sticker wears a metal basin holding paste and a large satchel presumably holding fliers to be posted, and he holds a long instrument for adhering bills high on the

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