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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Müller, ‘Vauxhall Gardens, shewing the Grand Walk at the entrance of the garden, and the Orchestra, with the Musick playing’, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1755. Résumé Pleasure gardens were a type of eighteenth-century public spaces … – from food and drink, through art appreciation, music shows, to bowling, fireworks and even animal fights – but also played an active role in activities and trends like gossip and fashion, reflecting varied cultural phenomena such as taste, companionship or being on display. Providing amusement for those willing to pay for it, they operated on a seasonal basis, with the height of their …
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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Müller, ‘Vauxhall Gardens, shewing the Grand Walk at the entrance of the garden, and the Orchestra, with the Musick playing’, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1755. Image Samuel Wale, A General Prospect of Vaux Hall Gardens (1751). … Vauxhall thus contributed to the idea that polite pleasures defined new forms of sociability. It invited the visitors to play with their public image; one of the attractions was ‘ the seeing others, and being seen by them ‘ as described in a … part of the experience of walking around to meet various groups of visitors. Whereas in gardens, the musicians usually played old tunes demanded by the audience, here the musicians performed new music, and it became a place where recent …
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… gave offense to his neighbours by his refusal. Refusing all, he disobliged none. Indeed as neither he, nor his wife, played at cards, they conceived they might often be disagreable intruders. (Gilpin, Memoirs , 150) 6 . Rebecca Warner, …
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