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Creator:
William Hogarth, born in London, England, 1697; active in England; died in London, England, 1764
Title:
Southwark Fair
Date:
1733
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving with chine collé on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/4 × 24 3/4 inches (46.4 × 62.9 cm), Plate: 14 3/8 × 18 5/8 inches (36.5 × 47.3 cm), Image: 13 1/2 × 17 1/4 inches (34.3 × 43.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "British XVIII | Hogarth, William | Southwark Fair | P. 131 | 1965.40.12"

Watermark: Whatman, 1830

Lettered inside image, upper left: "The Stage Mutiny || We'l Starve | im out || I am a | Gentleman || Liberty is property || We eat || it Cost | £ | 6000 || Quiet & Snug || Pistols: alive"; center: "The Siege of Troy | is here"; center right: "Punches Opera"; center right: "The whole | Court of | France | is | here"; center right: "Royal | War | worke"; center: "Lee | & Har- | pers"; center: Great | Booth"; lower right: "Finest Dexterity | of hand"; lower left: "Ciber | and | Balloch"; lower left: "The | Fall of | Baja- | -zet"; below image, lower left: "Invented Painted & Engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth. 1733."

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Lyall Dean, Mrs. Borden Helmer, and the Estate of Bliss Reed Crocker in memory of Mr and Mrs. Edward Bliss Reed, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1994.4.516
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Access:
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:40009
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Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text), , New Haven, 2006, [p.30], V 1699:1 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 6-7, 12, V 1699 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Alice Insley, William Hogarth : visions in print, Tate Publishing, London, 2021, pp. 38, 77, NJ18 .H67 I57 2021 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Jacqueline Riding, Hogarth's Britons, 2023, p.14, NJ18 H67 A12 2023 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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