File:16 The Frost Fair.JPG
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Rita Greer: The Frost Fair
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The Frost Fair |
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English: 'The Frost Fair'. The winter of 1683-4 was exceptionally severe. The Thames froze over allowing a tented city to be set up for stalls, booths, shops and entertainments. The 2000 or so watermen made their boats into sleds or put wheels on them and pulled their customers across the ice.
Oil on board. Rita Greer 2009. |
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| Date | 2009 | |||||||||||
| Medium | oil on board | |||||||||||
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Caption top left: The Frost Fair of the river Thames 1684
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| Source/Photographer | The original is an oil painting on board by Rita Greer, history painter, 2009. This was digitized by Rita and sent via email to the Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University, where it was subsequently uploaded to Wikimedia. | |||||||||||
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Copyleft: This work of art is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it according to terms of the Free Art License. You will find a specimen of this license on the Copyleft Attitude site as well as on other sites. |
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| current | 02:33, 27 August 2009 | 2,562 × 1,998 (577 KB) | James.Leek | {{Information |Description={{en|1='The Frost Fair'. The winter of 1683-4 was exceptionally severe. The Thames froze over allowing a tented city to be set up for stalls, booths, shops and entertainments. The 2000 or so watermen made their boats into sl |
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