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Southwark Fair, or, The humours of a fair
Title
[Southwark Fair, or, The humours of a fair] [graphic] / invented, painted & engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth, 1733.
Publication
[London] : [Wm. Hogarth], [1733]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with engraving ; plate mark 362 x 471 mm, on sheet 472 x 608 mm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title and publisher from Paulson.
Paulson cites an alternative title from Hogarth: Humours of a fair.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Queen Charlotte, the album bound according to Her Majesty's direction.
Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Summary
The scene is of the Southwark fairgrounds in London with attractions. A large sign "The Siege of Troy" hangs in front a church obscuring all but the steeple. A theatrical booth on the left collapses under the sign "The Stage of Mutiny ..."; a lantern sign reads "Ciber [sic] and Bullock's The Fall of Bajazet". There is a china shop, a rope dancer and rope-flyer, a quack doctor, a peepshow, a conjuror (Isaac Fawkes) and broadsword fighter on horseback; in the foreground a black boy plays a trumpet and a young woman a drum.
Variant and related titles
Humours of a fair
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 02, 2011
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, no. 1960
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 131
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1733.
Engravings - England - London - 1733.
Etchings - England - London - 1733.
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