Fair day, or, The perishable commodity [graphic]

"A fair-ground surrounded by roughly made tents, one placarded 'Brown Stout'. A rustic inn is on the right and on the left a platform on which a zany postures invitingly before a curtain. In the foreground a gouty and elderly man addresses a demurely meretricious country girl who holds a basket of eggs and a rose. He stoops towards her, saying, "My pretty dear--what do you ask for your Article? I am rather near sighted--but I'll give you half a Crown for it at a venture". She answers: "Dear! Sir!--I wonder you should think of such a thing--though mine is but a perishable Commodity,--it shall not go at that price I assure you". At her feet is a broken egg. Yokels gaze up at a booth (right): 'Jobson's Grand display of Magical Deceptions Sligh ...' A man in a smock, on horseback, drinks deep at the inn, beside the stout innkeeper."--British Museum online catalogue