2-699-372 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Southwark Fair. (After Hogarth's Picture)', (c1878). After 'Southwark Fair', 1733, by William Hogarth. A rowdy crowd is enjoying the festivities in Borough High Street, near St George the Martyr, London. Among the figures are a group of actors falling from a stage to the left, a man on a tight-rope behind, a performing dog and musicians in the foreground. The fair was held annually for two weeks in September, and was abolished in 1762. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]