Gallery

Jean-François de Troy, Lecture dans un salon, dit La Lecture de Molière, collection privée ( 74 x 93 cm), non daté.

Lecture dans un salon, dit La Lecture de Molière, undated.

James Gilray, A Uniform Whig [1791] © Trustees of the British Museum

A Uniform Whig, 1791

"The Wedding of Lismahago and Tabitha", from Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (London, 1793), Vol. 1. 1793.

The Wedding of Lismahago and Tabitha, 1793

Parliament Close and Public Characters of Edinburgh 50 years Since, attributed to John Kay (1742-1826)

Parliament Close and Public Characters of Edinburgh, c. 1794

John Bowles, Ranelagh Rotunda (1751). British Library Shelfmark: C103k.11

Ranelagh Rotunda, 1751

Johan Joseph Zoffany, The Academicians of the Royal Academy 1771-72. Royal Trust Collection. RCIN 400747.

The Academicians of the Royal Academy, 1771-72

N. Lafrensen (ill) et F. Dequevauviller (grav), L'Assemblée au Salon, eau forte. Coll. BnF Département des Estampes et de la Photographie (cote : AA-175 (2)-FOL

L'Assemblée au Salon, 1774

Image taken from Christopher Anstey, The New Bath Guide: Or, Memoirs of the B-r-d Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles. 10th edition. [London]: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1776.

The New Bath Guide, 1776

James Gillray, Smoking club (1793). New York Public Library, George Arents Collection. Copy of artwork published in Tobacco, its History and Associations (1859) by Frederick William Fairholt (1814-1866).

Smoking club, 1793

Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), Breaking Up of the Blue Stocking Club (London: Thomas Tegg, 1815. NYPL, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle)

Breaking Up of the Blue Stocking Club, 1815

Captain Jesse, The Life of George Brummell, esq., commonly called Beau Brummell (Newyot: Scribner and Welford, 1886), vol. 1, p. 10-11 ("Beau Nash").

Beau Nash, 1886

Edward Henry Dixon, Old White Conduit House (1831). London Metropolitan Archives.

Old White Conduit House, 1831

William Hogarth, O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’), 1748.

O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’), 1748

Thomas Rowlandson, 'Comforts of Bath: The Pump Room', Yale Center for British Art, B1975.3.53, 1798.

The Pump Room, 1798

Sir Thomas Lawrence, 'Sir Humphry Davy, Bt', © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 1573, unknown date.

Sir Humphry Davy, unknown date

James Gillray, ‘Copenhagen House’, © The Trustees of the British Museum, BM 140572001, 1795.

Copenhagen House, 1795

Boscawen’s letters to Hester Pitt, Lady Chatham

Boscawen’s letter to Hester Pitt, Lady Chatham, undated

Jerry Barrett, ‘Wood engraving of Elizabeth Gurney Fry reading to prisoners in Newgate Prison, London’, Wikimedia Common, circa 1860s.

Elizabeth Gurney Fry reading to prisoners in Newgate Prison, circa 1860s

William Hogarth, 'An Election Entertainment, from the series known as 'The Humours of an Election', Wikimedia Commons, 1755.

An Election Entertainment, 1755

Covent Garden Market, 1737, by Balthazar Nebot (active 1730–1765). Tate Gallery, Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED.

Covent Garden Market, 1737

George Bickham the Younger, ‘Satire on the Westminster Election of May 1741’, The British Museum, 1868,0808.3663, 1741.

Satire on the Westminster Election, 1741

James Gillray, ‘View of the Husting in Covent Garden’, The British Museum, 1851,0901.1222, 1806.

View of the Husting in Covent Garden, 1806

Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The ghost of a rotten borough, appearing on the hustings of Covent Garden’, The British Museum, 1948,0214.708, 1807.

The ghost of a rotten borough, 1807

Antoine Meunier, La Comédie française, dessin, 17... , gallica.bnf.fr/ Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

La Comédie française, 18th century

J. Bowles's view of St. James's Square, London circa 1752

St. James's Square, circa 1752

"The Frenchman in London" by Charles White (1770). British Museum 1877,1013.1109.

The Frenchman in London, 1770

The Connoisseur. By Mr. Town, Critic and Censor-general. Printed for J. Parsons, No. 21, Paternoster-Row (London), 1793, volume 3.

The Connoisseur, 1793

Jean-Louis Baptiste Oudry, Le Singe et le léopard, dessin pour l’illustration des Fables de La Fontaine, Paris, musée du Louvre, département des Arts graphiques.

Le Singe et le léopard, 1732