Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Southwark Fair (or the humours of a fair)
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 · 1733
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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