A negociation for a piece!! [graphic]Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker[not before 1 January 1807]eng"A handsome woman sits in a bergère (left), watching two men. A young man, wearing a 'Jean-de-Bry coat (see British Museum Satires No. 9425), short double-breasted waistcoat, and long pantaloons, stands with his hands in his coat pockets, talking to an old man wearing a star who stands (right), chapeau-bras, with flexed knees, leaning on a cane. The woman says: "I wish Gentlemen you would come to some decision, - it is terrible to be kept in this suspence!" The young man: "I assure you my Lord - what I ask is extremely reasonable, - for on the world of a Gemmen - If I chose to run the risk - I might make five times the money of her in the Crim-Con line." The old man: "As you cant agree together - I think I am very good to take her off your hands at any rate, - You know Jack - I dont mind a few Guineas one way or the other - but you really over-rate the Article - it is complete forestalling! in short you'll entirely ruin the regular Markets"."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue.Later reissue by Tegg of print originally published in October 1801 (?) by Piercy Roberts. Robert's imprint statement below title is scored through and illegible, with Tegg's imprint added above title. In this later reissue, the date in Tegg's imprint is burnished from plate, leaving a gap between "London, Pub." and "by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside." See British Museum catalogue.Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier reissue: London, Pub. Jany. 1, 1807, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.7523.Plate numbered "250" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.Also issued separately.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge with loss of scored-through imprint statement below title. Description of missing portion from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1867,0511.67.