The illustration by Alfred Concanen decorated the front cover of the music sheet for Fun of the Fair, a quadrille by Warwick Williams. It depicts visitors to a 19th century fair or fairground. They are walking up the steps to the entrance of a tented structure, probably a 'Dancing Saloon'. The show-front is illustrated with images of music sheet covers which feature singers of the day, George Leybourne, Bessie Bonehill, Charles Godfrey, and T.W. Barrett, as if they were painted fairground show-fronts. The platform in front of the booth is populated by a brass band, a drummer, a trumpeter, two white-faced clowns, a pantaloon, and a barker holding a stick aloft, hectoring for custom.

Warwick Williams was well known for writing pieces of music, such as this quadrille, that included and popularised tunes from music hall songs. Alfred Concanen was one of the leading lithographers of his day, and perhaps the most versatile and prolific of all the Victorian music sheet illustrators.