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Night view of a crowded fair with striped booths, lanterns and a moon, with many people in the foreground and tall buildings at right.

Bartholomew Fair, London: scene of night-time revelry at the fair in Smithfield, outside St Bartholomew's Hospital. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after A. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1808.

A crowded night scene of a fair under a moonlit, cloudy sky, with striped booths and lanterns lighting a dense throng of people in the foreground. Tall buildings frame the right edge, and a tented stall and carts sit at lower left in this coloured aquatint.

Artist
Thomas Rowlandson
Date
1 February 1808
Medium
Aquatints
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3205 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1808.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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