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Southwark Fair (or the humours of a fair)

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Title from catalogue raisonné.Paulson: 131Date from item.Invented Painted & Engrav'd by Wm. HogarthPaulson, Ronald. "Hogarth's Graphic Works." The Print Room, 1989, London.Fairground with attractions including theatrical booths (Ciber [sic] and Bullock's collapsing on the left, and Lee and Harper's in the center), china shop, rope dancer and rope-flyer, quack doctor, peep show, conjuror (Isaac Fawkes) and broadsword fighter on horseback. In the foreground a black boy plays a trumpet and a young woman a drum. The tower of St George the Martyr in Borough High Street in background.
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Keywords

  1. Entertainers
  2. Fairs
  3. Spectators

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