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Barthelemew Fair [print] / Lud, Du Guernier inv et Sculp.

Accession number
PML 146638, p. 167
Creator
Du Guernier, Louis, 1677-1716, printmaker.
Published
[London] : [D. Midwinter et al.?], [1739]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Frontispiece illustration to: Bartholomew Fair : a comedy, acted in the year 1614, by the Lady Elizabeth's servants. And then Dedicated to King James of most blessed Memory. / The author Ben. Johnson. London : printed for D. Midwinter, J. and P. Knapton, H. Knaplock ..., 1739.
Inserted facing page 167 into v. 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 131 x 78 mm; plate mark: 143 x 85 mm ; sheet: 180 x 110 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
View of Bartholomew Fair, in Smithfield, London; a cobbled lane crowded with figures buying and selling goods; in right foreground a man site with a large basket.
Classification
Department