Artist: William Hogarth
Date: 1733
Size: 120 x 151 cm
Museum: Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, United States)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
On the surface, this painting presents the chaos and crowds at the annual fair in Southwark, the district of London south of the Thames at London Bridge. An annual tradition since the fifteenth century, the fair finally became so raucous that it was closed in 1762 as a public nuisance. Among many other distractions, the painting shows the variety of theatrical entertainments typical of the fair, as well as strolling musicians, a pimp trying to beguile two country girls, a pickpocket, gamblers, and a dancing dog dressed in human clothing. Hogarth was not so much painting Southwark Fair in particular as, in his words, “the Humours of a Fair” in general.Many of Hogarth’s witty and humorous paintings disguise a moral message:
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