Artwork Details
13-3/8 x 17-7/8 in. (image) 17-1/4 x 23 in. (sheet)
Mark DescriptionInscribed: Invented, Painted & Engraved by Wm. Hogarth 1733
Accession NumberGift of William George Sullivan
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteWilliam George Sullivan; given to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1930.
Bartholomew Fair—held each September in the shadow of the church of St. George the Martyr in Southwark, a southern district of London—began as a general market but became a two-week place of amusement. Hogarth includes temporary stages for various plays and players who actually performed there in the 1720s, along with tightrope walkers, puppeteers, and contortionists. It was also a place of vice, as Hogarth shows, rife with gamblers, pickpockets, seducers, and peep shows. Such activities led local authorities to cancel the fair in 1762.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
William Hogarth: The Painter of Comic History
Indianapolis Museum of Art
August 31, 2012 - August 4, 2013
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