The Hard Bargain

by William after George Morland Ward

$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A fine impression of this beautiful print by Ward after George Morland, the master of genre painting. The Hard Bargain was one of the most successful of William Ward's mezzotints of a Morland painting. Morland's extraordinary ability to convey in posture and expression is perfectly transmitted in Ward's print, in which we see the seller of a heifer making conciliatory gestures toward the prospective buyer, who is already half turned to leave and practically snarls at the

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