File:'Greenwich Park, with the Royal Observatory, on Easter Monday' RMG PU2203.tiff
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| Author |
J. Pass; Pugh; Richard Phillips |
| Description |
English: 'Greenwich Park, with the Royal Observatory, on Easter Monday' This is a well-known image of Greenwich at the time of its Easter Fair, which filled the streets of the town until the parish authorities abolished it in 1857 as deleterious to good order and public morals. Many sorts of people and occupations can be spotted among the crowd shown, from decorous strolling, dancing and children's games, to 'tumbling' on the hill below the Observatory, an urchin escaping up a tree with a Greenwich Pensioner waving a stick at him below, and sailors dallying with ladies of uncertain status on the grass. These are apparently Naval men from their dress and the cudgels they carry and one, by the tree left has a monkey on his shoulder. The large crowd on the left may have assembled around some sort of contest or fight. One of the best descriptions of Greenwich Fair, though rather later, is in Dickens's 'Uncommercial Traveller'. |
| Date | 20 April 1804 |
| Dimensions | Mount: 180 mm x 232 mm |
| Notes | Box Title: Greenwich 1800-1828. |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/106354 |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
| Identifier | id number: PAD2203 |
| Collection | Fine art |
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