Vauxhall Gardens in Londen, Robert Pollard (I), after Thomas Rowlandson, 1785 print A crowd of 'Nobles and Nobodies' in the popular Lusthof Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London. A few people from the London High Society can be identified. The vocalist on the balcony is the 38-year-old Frederika Weichsel. In the orchestra is Jacob Nelson, the timpanist who performed in Vauxhall Gardens from 1753. Next to him is John Abraham Fisher on oboe and possibly Hezekiah Cantelo. At the front of Weichsel is the violinist François Hippolite Barthélémon, who retired in 1783. James Hook, composer, organist an
Vauxhall Gardens in Londen, Robert Pollard (I), after Thomas Rowlandson, 1785 print A crowd of 'Nobles and Nobodies' in the popular Lusthof Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London. A few people from the London High Society can be identified. The vocalist on the balcony is the 38-year-old Frederika Weichsel. In the orchestra is Jacob Nelson, the timpanist who performed in Vauxhall Gardens from 1753. Next to him is John Abraham Fisher on oboe and possibly Hezekiah Cantelo. At the front of Weichsel is the violinist François Hippolite Barthélémon, who retired in 1783. James Hook, composer, organist and musical director, may be visible between Barthélémon and the singers. On the right in the foreground, the Prince of Wales (the later King George IV) whispers something in the ear of the actress Mary Robinson (also known as Perdita Robinson), who is armed with her smaller older husband, Thomas Robinson. There are probably members of the Tyers family, managers of the Vauxhall Gardens (possibly Jonathan and Margaret or Bryant Barrett and his wife Eliza) around them. The woman at the table on the right is Mrs. Barrey, a well -known Madam working at Sutton Street, Soho in London, with one of her workers and company. Left front tail 'Macaroni' Edward Topham, known as 'Scandalmonger to the World', through his monocle to Giorgiana Spencer, later Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire and her sister Henrietta Frances Spencoer, later Ponsonby, Burggravin van. Behind a tree is Henry Bate-Dudley, 'Fighting Parson' editor of the Morning Herald, or Thomas Tyers, entrepreneur and manager of Vauxhall Gardens between 1729 and 1767. In addition, James Perry is standing. In the lodge at the bottom left, the 'Supperbox', the writers Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Oliver Goldsmith and Hester Lynch Piozzi, also known as Hester Thrale. London paper etching / engraving Pleasure, enjoyment, joy; 'Allegrezza', 'Allegrezza da Le Medaglie', 'Allegrezza, Letitia and Giubilo', 'Diletto', 'pleasure', 'p
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