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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… shifted from multipurpose commercial premises to purpose-built exhibition and sales venues – the auction house. Image Legend Thomas Rowlandson, ‘Christie's Auction Room’, Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Quarto 646 808 … 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 to fashionable haunts. 1 . Mascha Hansen, … fellow antiquarian’s collection would see his community converge to the auction room. ‘I cannot learn that the late Mr. West has left any will which makes me presume his valuables will come under the auctioneer’s hammer– if so I hope it will …
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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… 1730–1765). Tate Gallery, Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED. Image George Bickham the Younger, ‘Satire on the Westminster Election of May 1741’, The British Museum, 1868,0808.3663, 1741. Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The ghost of a … Garden lay at the heart of the eighteenth-century metropolis, beside the major route between the Court and aristocratic Westminster to the west and the commercial City of London to the east. It was conceived as a square of genteel housing in … meetings and mobs. This slice of London life was presided over by the church of St Paul’s, situated at the western end of the square. 1 . See for instance Richard Horwood, ‘Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of …
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