Foire de la Grotta Ferrata, Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, 1825-1829 (circa)

Fair in a small square in grottaferrata, in the centre and left foreground a small crowd composed of men, one on horseback, women, and a child, some finely dressed, and a dog, gathered to watch two musicians on a stone platform, one carrying a drum and dressed as a clown, the other holding a violin and pointing upwards to a figure by a doorway, on top of an arched wall in the background, who brandishes a stick under a large awning, in the foreground to right a woman crousches by a an array of wares laid on the ground and appears to discuss with the merchant the price of a cloth she is holding, further away to right, figures seated at a table and a man in an apron and cap holding out a dish; after lescot lithograph on buff chine collé. Date: 1825-1829 (circa). Dimensions: Height: 247 mm (image); Width: 307 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Foire de la Grotta Ferrata (BM 1917,1208.1936)