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print
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satirical print
Object Type
print
satirical print
Museum number
Cc,2.84
Title
Object:
The humours and diversions of Southwark Fair.
Description
Copy of fairground with attractions including theatrical booths (Ciber [sic] and Bullock's collapsing on the left, and Lee and Harper's in the centre), china shop, rope dancer and rope-flyer, quack doctor, peep show, conjuror (Isaac Fawkes) and broadsword fighter on horseback; in the foreground a black boy plays a trumpet and a young woman a drum; after Hogarth, with the clock showing 11:25am. Etching and engraving
Producer name
After:
William Hogarth
Print made by:
Remigius Parr
(?)
School/style
British
Production date
1762-1779
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
257 millimetres
Width:
364 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
According to BM Satires and 'The Genuine Works of William Hogarth' by Nichols and Steevens (London: 1817, vol. III, pp.218-9), there is a state of this plate with the publication line by Carington and John Bowles.
Bibliographic references
Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition
(131)
(copy)
BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(1962)
Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition
(131)
(copy)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
satire
fair
theatre/theatrical life
musician
street-trader
doctor
magician/conjuror
ceramic
shop
acrobat/street-performer
black
Associated names
Representation of:
Theophilus Cibber
Associated with:
William Bullock
Associated with:
Hannah Lee
Associated with:
John Harper
Representation of:
Isaac Fawkes
Associated places
Topographic representation of:
London
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
William Packer
(probably)
Acquisition date
1827
(before)
Acquisition notes
See comment on S,2.1.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
Cc,2.84