File:Frost Fair on the River Thames (1814).jpg
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DescriptionFrost Fair on the River Thames (1814).jpg |
English: Description from the British Museum:
Below the title: 'As it appeared in the hard Frost, Feby 4. 1814 between London and Blackfriars Bridges when the river was one sheet of Ice and Snow, and on which several trades and pastimes were carried on, the above View, was taken on the Spot at Bankside Feby 4 [see No. 12341].' In the foreground is the riverside in Southwark, with spectators, and a vendor of 'A hot Mutton Pie or an Apple Pie'; a gangway placarded 'The New City Road' leads from the pavement to ice. In the background is a detailed view of riverside buildings, the north ends of Blackfriars Bridge (left) and London Bridge (right), St. Paul's, many spires, and the Monument (right). Letters on the print refer to a key in the lower margin. Tents are dotted over the ice, with a group of three in the centre of the design: 'The City of Moscow' has two other placards, 'Barclays Intire' and 'Good Gin Rum &c.' It flies a Russian flag and on its summit is the effigy of a man. Behind this is the 'Lord Wellington for Ever', with a Union flag, and on the left the 'Orange Boven' [see No. 12102] with 'Good Ale Porter & Gin'; it flies the striped flag of the Stadtholder. In front of this people are dancing while a fiddler plays ('H, Dancing and Fidling'). Behind these tents there is a curving line of spectators and pedestrians along the stream of the river, inscribed 'I, The main walk'. At intervals along it are various attractions: 'B, Copperplate Printing' (the press is being worked), 'The Wiskey Shop' (a small booth), a printing-press with a placard 'Frost Fair Printing Office' ('A, Letterpress Printing'), and, farther on, another press: 'Thames Printing Office' (also marked 'A'). Other incidents are skittles (two games, 'F, playing at Skittles'); 'G, Throwing at Gingerbread', with sticks, the slabs being placed on upright sticks. Two boat-shaped swings, one placarded 'High Flyer' ('E, Swinging'); two 'Ballad Singers' ('D'), a man and woman; the carcase of a sheep, hanging from a gibbet-like erection ('C, A Sheep to be roasted'). In the distance a barber shaves a man who is seated in the open ('K, Shaveall at work'). Below the design: 'Copy of a Verse printed on the Thames— Amidst the Arts which on the Thames appear, To tell the wonders of this Icy Year, Printing claims prior place which at one view Erects a monument of that and you.' 14 February 1814; printed 4 February Hand-coloured woodcut Producer name Published by: George Thompson |
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Source | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1931-1114-394 |
Author | George Thompson |
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Image width | 5,633 px |
Image height | 4,535 px |
Color space | sRGB |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows |
Date and time of digitizing | 13:08, 30 April 2008 |
File change date and time | 13:11, 30 April 2008 |
Date metadata was last modified | 13:11, 30 April 2008 |