Vauxhall Gardens in London, Robert Pollard (I), 1785 Canvas Print
A crowd of 'Nobles and Nobodies' in london's popular pleasure garden Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Some persons from London high society can be identified. The vocalist on the balcony is 38-year-old Frederika Weichsel. The orchestra includes Jacob Nelson, the timpani player who performed at 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 (later King George IV) whispers something in the ear of the actress Mary Robinson (also known as Perdita Robinson), who is dressed with her smaller older husband, Thomas Robinson. Around them are probably members of the Tyers family, owners of the Vauxhall Gardens (possibly Jonathan and Margaret or Bryant Barrett and his wife Eliza). The woman at the table on the right is Mrs Barrey, a well-known madam working on Sutton Street, Soho in London, with one of her employees and company. In the front left, 'macaroni' Edward Topham, known as 'scandalmonger to the world', stares through his monocle at Giorgiana Spencer, later Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire and her sister Henrietta Frances Spencer, later Ponsonby, Viscountess of Duncannon and Countess of Bessborough. 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. Next to it is James Perry. In the lodge at the bottom left, the 'supperbox', are the writers Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Oliver Goldsmith and Hester Lynch Piozzi , also known as Hester Thrale.
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