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 … including actors, traders, writers and prostitutes. Covent Garden was also the place where the rowdy hustings for the Westminster elections occurred, inspiring many satirical artists. Places > Institutions Mots-clés Coffeehouses Commerce …
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