Pot Fair Cambridge
Pots are laid out on tables for sale. A fat divine at left stumbles backward as dogs fight in the foreground. A seller at left is alarmed as he threatens to fall onto her table.
Artwork Details
- Title: Pot Fair Cambridge
- Etcher: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
- Artist: Henry William Bunbury (British, Mildenhall, Suffolk 1750–1811 Keswick, Cumberland)
- Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (British, active 1794–1832)
- Date: May 1, 1803
- Medium: Hand-colored etching
- Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 7 11/16 × 9 7/16 in. (19.5 × 24 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
- Object Number: 59.533.1862
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Thomas Rowlandson
1780–1827
Thomas Rowlandson
1780–1827
Thomas Rowlandson
1780–1827
Multiple artists/makers
January 1794
Thomas Rowlandson
late 18th–early 19th century
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