print;
ticket
- Museum number
- 1931,1114.373
- Title
- Object: Frost Fair
- Description
-
View of the frozen Thames, covered with blocks of ice, looking towards buildings on the south bank where a potter's or glassmaker's kiln emits clouds of smoke. In the foreground a crowd mills around a number of booths and tents, including three with signs lettered, "The Noble Art of Printing", "Frost Fare Coffie House" and "Friezland Coffee House"; in another tent a printer is at work on a press and prints are pinned around the entrance; to the right hangs a large screen apparently painted with scenes. In the background a man pulls a small carriage, others are skating and another is helped out of a hole in the ice; boats are frozen into the ice. In the foreground, on the left, another boy has fallen into a hole, and, and on the right, a man prepares to fling a cat; eight lines of verses engraved below. 28 January 1740
Etching and Engraving
Below, a ticket with name 'Mrs Elizabeth Theobald' within a decorative border. 1740
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1740
- Dimensions
-
Height: 211 millimetres (image)
-
Height: 345 millimetres (sheet)
-
Width: 318 millimetres (image)
-
Width: 330 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- See 1868,0808.3638 for another impression and comment.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Frost Fair 1740
- Acquisition date
- 1931
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1931,1114.373
