Views of Society - Bazaar and Fancy Fair - stock illustration

A crowded bazaar and ‘fancy fair’, with stalls selling all sorts of things and a band playing at the back of the marquee to entertain the multitude. Intriguingly, a woman with a small table is chasing a man near the band! From “Bird’s-Eye Views of Modern Society in Sixteen Plates taken by Richard Doyle; Reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine.” Dated c1864 with wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers and published in London.