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Imaginary Street Scene With Market Stalls and a Theatrical Performance

Painting
1805 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Prins, Johannes Huibert (artist)
Place of origin
Netherlands (painted)

Painting depicting a provincial fair taking place in a town square. The scene is crowded with figures and lined with buildings. In the background is a church. The pavement in the centre and left foreground is strewn with rubbish. In the left background is a wooden platform with a troop of actors performing. On the right of the scene is a tavern.


Object details

Categories
Paintings
Entertainment & Leisure
Object type
Painting
TitleImaginary Street Scene With Market Stalls and a Theatrical Performance (published title)
Materials and techniques
Water-colour
Water-Colour
Brief description
Watercolour, 'Imaginary Street Scene With Market Stalls and a Theatrical Performance', by Johannes Huibert Prins, provincial fair in Flanders, 1805.
Physical description
Painting depicting a provincial fair taking place in a town square. The scene is crowded with figures and lined with buildings. In the background is a church. The pavement in the centre and left foreground is strewn with rubbish. In the left background is a wooden platform with a troop of actors performing. On the right of the scene is a tavern.
Dimensions
  • Height: 540mm
  • Width: 723mm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Style
Dutch School
Marks and inscriptions
'J.H. Prins inv [....] 1805' (Signed and dated)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mrs M. V. Cunliffe
Object history
Bequeathed to the museum by Mrs Malvina Virginia Cunliffe (1889-1962), 19 February 1963
Subjects depicted
Fair
Tavern
Actors
Place depicted
Flanders
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. 153, illus. p.203.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
P.9-1963

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Record createdMay 4, 2010
Record URL
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