Bartholomew Fair Smithfield 1808 2003.46/149 Pride events

Pride events

General view of the park with the north east corner of the Serpentine in the Summer

The painting relates to the vivid drama of soldiers boarding a ship at Gravesend

Parliament Street

Detailed view of St

Bartholomew Fair Smithfield 1808 2003.46/149 Pride eventsBartholomew Fair, Smithfield. Crowds gather around stalls and fairground rides. Bartholomew fair was held annually, from its establishment in 1133 until it was surpressed in 1855, on the eve of St Batholomew's Day. 24th August. It was originally a cloth fair, but by the seventeeth century it had become more important as a centre of general entertainment. This print was published in The Microcosm of London.