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Description: | Coloured etching and aquatint . In this winter scene the River Thames has frozen over and a ‘frost fair’ is being held on the River. Food is cooked, while people gather in tents to keep warm and converse. The original watercolour for this aquatint print, which shows some minor differences to the published image, is now in the collection of London Metropolitan Archives. Just before the print was published in February 1814, an advertisement for it was placed in the ‘Morning Chronicle’:
‘A Coloured PRINT, representing the THAMES (as seen off the Three Cranes Wharf) when FROZEN, on Monday the 31st January, and continued to the Saturday following; exhibiting the Diversions of its Visitors, which much resembled a Flemish Fair; also a correct View of London Bridge and the Buildings from the City side; from a Drawing taken on the Ice, by CALVERT, whose peculiar stile [sic] in soft hazy distance and general effect, has been much admired.’
The print was published by Burkitt and Hudson of 85 Cheapside and sold for 10 shillings. The artist of the work, described as ‘Calvert’ in the advertisement, is probably Charles Calvert who, although Manchester based, produced numerous views of the River Thames. | Subjects: | bucket frost fair/festival/carnival house sailboat fire Winter tent/marquee girl topography woman ice basket drum musician cooking bridge (urban) dog wharf townscape/cityscape Victorian genre man river | Temporal: | 1814 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Attributed to (Note) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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