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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure frontispiece by H.-F. Gravelot, 1749

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure frontispiece by H.-F. Gravelot, 1749

Flagellation scene in a bedroom in a brothel, c. 1740

Flagellation scene in a bedroom in a brothel, c. 1740

A Harlot's Progress, 1732

A Harlot's Progress, 1732

Launching a Frigate, 1809

Launching a Frigate, 1809

Symptoms of life in London, 1821

Symptoms of life in London, 1821

The Tun Tavern, c. 1900

The Tun Tavern, c. 1900

Dorgez [ou Dorgès], ‘Salle de Concert de la Société Olympique dans les Vues de Paris’, Musée Carnavalet d’histoire de Paris, Estampe à l’eau forte, G. 11756, [s. d.], https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/salle-de-concert-de-la-societe-olympique-ndeg15-salle-de-spectacle-de-la#infos-secondaires-detail

Salle de Concert de la Société Olympique

Extract from Buck’s 1745 South-east Prospect of Leeds

Captain Cook's ship 'Endeavour' arriving at Matavai Bay, Tahiti, on April 13, 1769. Engraving by Antonio Zatta, based on a painting by fellow Italian artist Pietro Antonio Novelli.

Captain Cook in Tahiti, 1769

Bulstrode Hall, 1787

Bulstrode Hall, 1787

A Christmas Tree at St Luke’s Asylum, London . Engraving. Illustrated Times , 19 January 1861.

A Christmas Tree at St Luke’s Asylum,1861

"White Lion Inn, Ponder's End, Middlesex" by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), 1822. Yale University Library, Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 14.

White Lion Inn, 1822

'Old inns in Southwark', Old and New London. London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878, chapter 7.

Old inns in Southwark, 1878

Jean Baptiste Michel and Joseph Farington, "Teniers's Kitchen", after David Teniers the Younger. Plate 22 of Vol.1 of the 'Houghton Gallery'. 1777. The British Museum, Kk,4.24.

Teniers's Kitchen, 1777

Le Salon de 1787 au Louvre, gravure de Pietro Antonio Martini (1787).

Le Salon du Louvre, 1787

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.

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

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

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

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

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

View of the Husting in Covent Garden, 1806

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

InFilms, ‘View from Prior Park, Bath over gardens and the Palladian Bridge towards the city of Bath’, 2006, WikiCommons.

View from Prior Park, Bath, 2006