Cup And Ball Fair, 16thC (Italian Scenes On Reverse), Book Illustration, 1893

ORIGINAL BOOK ILLUSTRATION (PRINT)

ON MEDIUM THICK PAPER PAGE OF APPROX

11 X 7.5 INCHES

(280 X 195 MM)

OTHER IMAGES ON REVERSE

FROM 'THE PICTURE MAGAZINE VOL II'

PUBLISHED BY GEORGE NEWNES LTD, 1893

 IMAGES BY VARIOUS ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS

FOR CONDITION, DISCOLORATION AND FOXING SEE IMAGE

SHIPS IN A4 CARDBOARD REINFORCED ENVELOPE

KEYWORDS: VICTORIAN, LIFE AND HUMOUR

MORE INFO FROM OCR:

CUP-AND-BALL FAIR.
(From a Print of Mc 16/1 Ccn/u;y. )
In r 585 Henri Ill. of France was possessed of a perfect mania för playing cup and ball. He carried his cup and ball even when
he went out walking, and when surrounded by his courtiers, who caught the fashion from him. Then the general people took it up,
and cup and ball became the rage. The above print gives a most interesting illustration of the ruling passion. Ladies, gallants, and
working-folk, from the shopkeeper and milkman down to the shoeblack, are absorbed in the effort to make the little ball fly into the
In the background a milk-woman is beating her daughter, apparently for having spent her savings at the stall which bears the Cup. inscription, La foirefranche des Bilbocquets de flus a /a mode—i.e., The shop for the most fashionable and balls.'

Old Prints.

A SCENE IN PIEDMONT, MONT BLANC IN THE DISTANCE.
That ladies have albums is very well known;
For the first time, perhaps, here is one made in stone.

A SCENE IN THE APENNINES.
This album's few leaves may afford you, perhaps,
Some very choice bits and still choicer

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