St. Stephens fair [graphic]

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Title: St. Stephens fair [graphic]
Alternative Title: Saint Stephens fair
Creator: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [8 February 1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Feby. 8th, 1808 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Quotation following title: O don't you think it a wonderful fair. Holcroft.
Printseller's announcement below design: Price one shilling colored.
Concluding digit in the publication year erased from print leaving worn paper.
Later reissued with series number. Cf. no. 10966, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Temporary local subject terms: Harlequins -- Weapons: Long bow -- Clowns: pierrot -- Salt boxes -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Royal Arms -- Costume: Male armor -- Ttilting lance -- Fairs -- Farmers -- Male costume: Kilt -- Scots -- Parsons -- Female costume: 1808 -- Physicians -- Quacks.
Mounted to 30 x 43 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.1 x 34.6 cm
Edition: [State lacking plate number].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1808
Etchings England London 1808
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812
Canning, George, 1770-1827
Subjects: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822 > Caricatures and cartoons
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834 > Caricatures and cartoons
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812 > Caricatures and cartoons
Canning, George, 1770-1827 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1808
England > London > 1808

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