"View on the Thames during the 1814 Frost Fair; tents erected on the ice; people making merry in tents around fire or on the ice outside; street traders selling goods at fair; a man playing skittle in foreground, figures slipping or falling through cracks in ice behind; Blackfriars Bridge in background, with St Paul's to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image., Numbered "(66" in upper right corner., Woodcut with letterpress text., and For an impression lacking publication line below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,0911.1008.
Publisher:
Published by T. Batchelar, 115 Long Alley, Moorfields, London
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Fairs, Cityscapes, Tents, Street vendors, and Winter
"View of the fair in Smithfield at night; stalls and attractions lit up, people crowding to watch performances on the various stages."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 8., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 52.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"In the foreground is the riverside in Southwark, with spectators, and a vendor of 'A hot Mutton Pie or an Apple Pie'; a gangway placarded 'The New City Road' leads from the pavement to ice. In the background is a detailed view of riverside buildings, the north ends of Blackfriars Bridge (left) and London Bridge (right), St. Paul's, many spires, and the Monument (right). Letters on the print refer to a key in the lower margin. Tents are dotted over the ice, with a group of three in the centre of the design: 'The City of Moscow' has two other placards, 'Barclays Intire' and 'Good Gin Rum &c.' It flies a Russian flag and on its summit is the effigy of a man. Behind this is the 'Lord Wellington for Ever', with a Union flag, and on the left the 'Orange Boven' [see No. 12102] with 'Good Ale Porter & Gin'; it flies the striped flag of the Stadtholder. In front of this people are dancing while a fiddler plays ('H, Dancing and Fidling'). Behind these tents there is a curving line of spectators and pedestrians along the stream of the river, inscribed 'I, The main walk'. At intervals along it are various attractions: 'B, Copperplate Printing' (the press is being worked), 'The Wiskey Shop' (a small booth), a printing-press with a placard 'Frost Fair Printing Office' ('A, Letterpress Printing'), and, farther on, another press: 'Thames Printing Office' (also marked 'A'). Other incidents are skittles (two games, 'F, playing at Skittles'); 'G, Throwing at Gingerbread', with sticks, the slabs being placed on upright sticks. Two boat-shaped swings, one placarded 'High Flyer' ('E, Swinging'); two 'Ballad Singers' ('D'), a man and woman; the carcase of a sheep, hanging from a gibbet-like erection ('C, A Sheep to be roasted'). In the distance a barber shaves a man who is seated in the open ('K, Shaveall at work')."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Printed on the River Thames February 4th, in the 54 year of the reign of King George the 3d, Anno Domini 1814."--Below image., Text below image, in lower left corner: Copy of a verse printed on the Thames - Amidst the arts which on the Thames appear, to tell the wonders of this icy year, printing claims prior place which at one view, erects a monument of that and you., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 14, 1814, by G. Thompson, No. 43 Long Lane, West Smithfield
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Fairs, Cityscapes, Tents, Street vendors, and Winter
