Fairlop Fair [graphic].

Description

Title: Fairlop Fair [graphic].
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [7 July 1815]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publishd. 7 July 1815 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract: "Social satire: a crowd enjoy themselves at a fair ground, with a troupe of harlequins performing on a stage."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate numbered "364" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leaf 77 in volume 5.
Provenance: Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
Collection Title: V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1815
Etchings England London 1815
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Clowns
Fairs
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England
Clowns
Fairs
England > 1815
England > London > 1815
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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