Print Specifics: Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique print Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1850 Artist - Engraver: Goodall - Carter Publisher: Virtue & Company, London. Condition: 1-2 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair) The print is slightly ' wavy.' Dimensions: 9 x 12.5 inches, (23 x 32 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 1-2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin) Reverse side: Blank Note: (1) Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. (2) The detail of the print is much sharper than the photos of the print. Narrative: The Village Festival : WHEN the picture from which this engraving is taken was hung on the walls of the Royal Academy in 1847, it attracted universal attention, and drew daily towards it crowds of admirers, as one of the most interesting works in the gallery, both in subject and in treatment, more especially as the production of a young painter. The genius of Art appears hereditary in Mr. Goodall's family.   His father is the celebrated engraver, and a brother and sister have also contributed many very clever pictures to our annual exilibitions; it -is not therefore surprising, that with such examples before and around him, the painter of " The Village Festival " should have proceeded, at a somewhat rapid pace, to place himself in a high position among his brother artists.   The work in question was suggested by the lines in " L'Allegro: "— " And young and old come forth to play n a sunshine holiday." The scene of the " right merrie-making" is the favourite old rural hostel of " The Royal Oak," a sign that was everywhere adopted at the Restoration to show the loyalty of the rustic Boniface.  The house itself is a genuine relic of that period, and beyond it are other residences of the villagers, closed in by the parish church.  The most prominent group of figures is that on the foreground, surrounding a Jew pedlar, who exposes his glittering wares to the admiration of a knot of old women, maidens, and children, and expatiates with the eloquence of his tribe on their value and beauty; and apparently with so much success as seems likely to draw forth some pence from the little embryo ploughman before him, diving his hand to the very bottom of his trowsers' pocket, in search of the purchase-money. This portion of the story is capitally told; the Jew is worthy of the younger Teniers.  To the right of this group is another equally full of character; a yeoman of the true Saxon blood) after, it may be presumed, having eaten and drunk to his heart's content, is listening to the landlord, who counts, on his fingers, the various items for which he demands payment, and which, to judge from the countenance of the debtor, are surprisingly numerous; at the same table is one who seems to have much work to do in little time, so energetically he plies the knife and fork.  Behind these, and in the house and about it, the votaries of fun and frolic are busily occupied, but the characters here introduced appear of that time of life which indisposes them to join hands with those in the centre of the picture:— " Many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade." Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998. Five-star service.