Hand-colored etching of women and a man gathered at a market stall with fish baskets, speech bubbles above, and a caption along the bottom.

Scandal Refuted or Billingsgate Virtue, 1818 hand-colored etching

A hand-colored etching shows a market scene with several women in aprons and shawls gathered among baskets of fish and goods, speech bubbles above them. Two women face each other in the center while a man in a dark coat and a hat stands beside them, and a figure in a red cloak appears at right. The caption title is printed along the bottom edge.

Artist: Charles Williams
Date: 1818
Medium: Etching in black, with hand-colored additions, on cream wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1091 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1818).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Ernest Byfield

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