NON-SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
- Laroon, The Quarrel
- Hollar, Glastoniensis
- Hollar, Landscape with Herdsmen
- Smith, Mr. Will: Richards
- Hogarth, Southwark Fair
- Smith, The Virgin Mary
- Hogarth, Midnight Modern
- Robinson, Banquet Piece
- att. to Vanderbank, Senesino
- Beauclerk, Street Musicians
- Haward, Mrs. Siddons
- Gillray, Comfort to the Corns
- Cheesman, The Seamstress
- Anonymous, Diamond
- Rowlandson, Gaffers
- Bartolozzi, Miss Farren
- Anonymous, Beatrice Fishing
- Say, Miss Mellon
- Rowlandson, The Poacher
- Smith, Narcissa
- Cruikshank, The Cholic
- Vendramini, Strawberrys, Scarlet
- Cruikshank, A Catalanian PicNic
- Morland, Peasants Resting
- Cruikshank, Sales by Auction!
- Daniell, Joseph Haydn
- Williams, Leap Year
- Finch, In the Park
- Cruikshank, A Consultation
- Anonymous, Duck Shooting
- Heath, A Pleasant Draught
- O’Neill, The Mill
- Cruikshank, Hint to the Blind
- Craig, Trees
- Heath, Blessing of Cheap Cider
- Calvert, The Brook
- Calvert, Cottage and Trees
- Lisle, I’d be a butterfly
- Palmer, Early Plowman
- Leitch, Shepherd
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Whistler, The Brothers
- Cameron, The Palace
- Strang, The Cause of the Poor
- Detmold, Long-Eared Bat
- Detmold, Phoenix
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5. William Hogarth (1697-1764) Southwark Fair |
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Southwark Fair
Etching and engraving, 1733, Paulsen 131 only state, 365 x 470 mm. Fine, bright impression on laid paper with good margins, probably from a Boydell edition but possibly earlier. Hogarth, a major figure in British art in so many ways, begins the great age of the satirical print in Britain. Rarely conceived simply to be funny, his prints were at times harshly moralizing but, even when not, designed to show the foibles and fantasies of his age. There is so much going on in Southwark Fair that it would take pages to enumerate, particularly since references to actual people, theatrical plays and known pictures are rife within the image. Suffice it to say that there is virtually every form of public entertainment here, and not a few of vice, accident, freakishness, thievery, coquetry, belligerency, self-promotion and the like. Britain, or at least one aspect of it, in 1733.
