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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]

… Abstract Covent Garden lay at the heart of the eighteenth-century metropolis, beside the major route between the Court and aristocratic … These were populated by a cross-section of London life, including actors, traders, writers and prostitutes. Covent Garden was also the place where the rowdy hustings for the Westminster elections occurred, inspiring many satirical …

Auction houses [ Trade ]

… debate. Places > Trade Keywords Art market commerce collecting catalogue Coffeehouse Exhibitions Royal Exchange Covent Garden Pall Mall Auction sales were imported from seventeenth-century Holland, but rapidly became a feature of the … sales relocated from the Royal Exchange and its networks of wharfs and warehouses to the artistic clusters of Soho and Covent Garden and later on flourished in the West End and Pall Mall, completing their transition from commercial venues …

Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]

… associates. Objects > Print culture Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Theatre Print culture entertainment advertisement Covent Garden Drury Lane Ancestors of the theatrical programme, playbills were a common sight throughout the seventeenth and … ones. The minutiae of the playbill’s design varied, but from the mid-century onwards London playbills for theatres like Covent Garden and Drury Lane tended to include similar information: the names of plays, the names of players, the …

Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Abstract Vauxhall was one of the major pleasure gardens in London from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. Its architecture and spatial … visitors entertaining a small group of their own social circle.   Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Vauxhall Pleasure gardens visuality Sociability Entertainement Vauxhall pleasure garden was one of the public outdoor places of … representing children’s games and rustic activities, and Hogarth made The Four Times of the Day (1738) for Vauxhall – Covent Garden market and its visitors for Morning , the Huguenot church for Noon , the less elegant garden of Sadler’s …

West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]

… by both patrician society and a vigorous and often obscene popular culture that was evident in the pubs and brothels of Covent Garden. The West End created centres of male association, particularly the gentleman's club, the coffee house and the … located in pubs, sites of curiosity, print shops, coffee houses and brothels. The patent theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden were patrician but also plebeian spaces. The early modern West End became a place that shaped the public …

Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]

… came from the Inishowen Peninsula of Donegal Gaeltacht. 1   He passed away in July 1797 at his home in Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, London. Charles John Smith, after William Henry Bartlett, ‘Residence of Charles Macklin, Tavistock Row, Covent Garden’, 1837, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1880,1113.3089.   1 . 'Gaeltacht' is the area of Ireland where …