what's important here is you can see from my quotation is that john vander lin who is an academic painter points to his nephew and says this is a way in the 1820s of making a living. the people in the provincial areas are so eager for these goods, there's a fellow moving through the countryside meeting demand. unlike an urban station where you have an academic painter in an urban student where the customer would come to him, these itinerants in a less saturated market are moving along to find commerce, holding up in a place, then passing out hand bills to attract customers. they're really cultivating a market where possibly a market didn't exist before. so they were really advertising not just their services but they are advertising the whole mode of consumption of these colorful goods. and i think that's really quite striking in this quote. because it's a way of making your living in a more fluid society where the definition of what an artist might be is up for grabs. without training, without mentorship there's a whole contest who is an artist and i can easily claim as other folks i wri