Going to the Fair
Oil Painting
1837 (painted)
1837 (painted)
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These two companion paintings show the same family, before and after attending what would have been one of the great events of the village year - the travelling fair. The idea of such pendants was taken first from French painting by William Hogarth in the 1730s; they became very popular in the nineteenth century. Webster individualizes each character and contrasts each member of the group 'before and after' the excursion; for example, the youngest child is first out of the door riding its 'hobby-horse', but, tired out, is last home, while the eldest daughter has brought home a young man.
Object details
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| Title | Going to the Fair (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting entitled 'Going to the Fair' by Thomas Webster. Great Britain, 1837. |
| Physical description | These two companion paintings show the same family, before and after attending what would have been one of the great events of the village year - the travelling fair. The idea of such pendants was taken first from French painting by William Hogarth in the 1730s; they became very popular in the nineteenth century. Webster individualizes each character and contrasts each member of the group 'before and after' the excursion; for example, the youngest child is first out of the door riding its 'hobby-horse', but, tired out, is last home, while the eldest daughter has brought home a young man. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'T Webster/1837' (Signed and dated by the artist on stool, lower right) |
| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Associated object | FA.221[O] (Pair) |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 298 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.220[O] |
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| Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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