Bartholomew Fair, 1807

Not on View

Medium

etching and stipple with hand coloring on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 24.5 × 35.7 cm (9 5/8 × 14 1/16 in.)
mount: 32.1 × 50.8 cm (12 5/8 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Grego 1880, Vol. II, no. 92

Accession Number

1945.5.1227

Artists / Makers

Thomas Rowlandson (artist) British, 1756 - 1827

John Nixon (artist after) British, c. 1750 - 1818

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

recto: in plate, above image, at right: 7; in plate, below image, at right: Rowlandson Scul.; in plate, below image, at right: John. Nixon esq.r De.; on mount, in graphite at lower left in later hand: Unique proof / 1667 1808; on mount, in graphite at lower right: Bartholomew Fair Proof GII-92 / (B-12, 402); verso: at center in graphite in later hand: 390

Marks and Labels

recto: on mount: William Augustus Fraser (Lugt 2831)

Provenance

William Augustus Fraser (1826-1898), London (Lugt 2831)

Associated Names

Fraser, William Augustus
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1880: Grego, Joseph. Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures. 2 vols. London: Chattoand Windus, 1880. Reprint. New York: Collector's Editions, 1970.