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Creator:
Print made by William Hogarth, born in London, England, 1697; active in England; died in London, England, 1764
after William Hogarth, born in London, England, 1697; active in England; died in London, England, 1764
Title:
Southwark Fair
Date:
1733
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 18 3/4 inches (36.2 × 47.6 cm), Image: 13 1/2 × 17 7/8 inches (34.3 × 45.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

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 | Wax | 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, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.1410
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
caricature | fair | genre subject
Access:
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41995
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Douglas Fordham, British art and the Seven Years' War, allegiance and autonomy , University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2010, pp. 150-53, fig. 51, N72.P6 F66 2010 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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