[Traffic] [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1791 or 1794]eng"Two Jewish clothesmen outside a respectable mansion at right, buying clothes from an unimpressed housemaid standing in the doorway with a bundle under her arm and a clothes-pail on the step, one man standing with one foot on the doorstep and one on the street, holding up a pair of breeches, the other putting his hand through a hole in the seat; behind at left, a milkman settling his account with a housemaid in another doorway, two maids leaning out of windows on the first floor above and conversing."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from lettered state.Printmaker signature "Rowlandson fect." etched in lower left corner of design; additional signature "PM: A:Ja. [?] fct. [or fet.]" very faintly lettered in aquatint on doorstep in lower right portion of image.Artist attribution to Henry Wigstead from Nicholas J.S. Knowles.Perhaps an early state (lacking title) of a plate first published by S.W. Fores in 1791, and then republished by him on 16 December 1794; see Grego. See also British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.647.Sheet trimmed to plate mark.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.