[Interior of the building for the sale] [art original]Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist[ca. 1842]engInterior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842. Several dozen men in top hats and some women sit or stand around a long table on the left; the auctioneer George Robins sits on a platform on the right, holding a gavelTitle devised by curator.Signed by the artist in lower left corner of image.Bound in as page 127 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.