Jubilee Fair [graphic].

Copyright Date:

[10 September 1814]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 39 x 47 cm

Notes:

Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Text below image: This fair and naumachy or sham sea fight in Hyde Park was in honour of peace. This jubilee on Augt. 1, 1814, was to celebrate the return of peace and the centenary of the reign of the illustrious House of Brunswick and to commemorate the glorious Battle of the Nile.
Title etched above image.
With lettered key (from A to D) etched on either side of text below image: A. The Naumachy, representing the Battle of the Nile. B. The Serpentine River. C. The fair, which lasted upwards of a week. D. The fireworks in Kensignton Gardens let off at eleven at night.

Abstract:

"View of the Jubilee Fair in Hyde Park; in foreground to left a small stage erected with a band playing and jesters performing, a small crowd stands in front, a few tents in central foreground with signs such as "Duke of Wellington Whitbreads Intire", and on a lamp "Dancing and Singing Here"; beyond a crowd stands by river bank watching a sham sea fight, many sailing ships on water with smoke billowing from the scene, on the opposite river bank the fair continues."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Banners.
Crowds.
Eating & drinking.
Fairs.
Fireworks.
Fools & jesters.
Historical reenactments.
Musicians.
Show tents.

Topics:

Hyde Park (London, England)--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001951

Topics:

Pitts, John, 1765-1844, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97033293

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings--England--London--1814.
Etchings--England--London--1814.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

814.09.10.01++ Frame, shelved in LFS Bin 28

Orbis Record:

13752754

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr36908

Citation:

Crace, J. G. Catalogue of maps, plans and views of London, Westminster and Southwark collected and arranged by Frederick Crace, no. 93, page 249

OID:

16704463

PID:

digcoll:4679434