Subject

Fairs

Images

  • A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
  • A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
  • A man at a funfair by the seaside, being compelled to move rapidly by his dog pulling him forwards; representing exercise as good for the heart. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Hartstichting, ca. 2000.
  • A bustling country fair full of stalls of people selling their wares. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1788, after A. Ostade.

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