Accession number
PML 146852.9
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London : s.n.], 1733.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Paulson and other secondary sources.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146852) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Print forms part of an album (PML 146852) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Description
1 print : etching & engraving ; image: 343 x 452 mm; plate mark: 365 x 472 mm; sheet: 455 x 625 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a fairground scene with attractions including theatrical booths (Ciber [i.e. Cibber] and Bullock's collapsing on the left, and Lee and Harper's in the center), china shop, rope dancer and rope-flyer, a dancing dog, quack doctor, peep show, conjuror (Isaac Fawkes), wax works, and broadsword fighter on horseback; in the foreground a black boy plays a trumpet and a young woman a drum.
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