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Author : Warwick William Wroth,Arthur Edgar Wroth
Publisher : London, MacMillan
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Gardens
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020302576
This 1896 volume offers the British Museum curator's scholarly examination of London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardens.
Author : Warwick William Wroth,Arthur Edgar Wroth
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101568307X
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415053471
Author : WARWICK. WROTH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033389226
Author : Warwick William Wroth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 4863400268
Author : Warwick William Wroth,Arthur Edgar Wroth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129397126X
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Warwick Wroth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 026525101X
Excerpt from The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century The principal sources of information consulted are named in the notes and in a section at the end of each notice, and, wherever_practicable, a list has been added of the most interesting views of the various gardens. The Introduction contains a brief sketch of some of the main characteristics of the pleasure resorts described in the volume, and it is only necessary here to add that even our long list of sixty-four gardens does not by any means exhaust the outdoor resources of the eighteenth-century Londoner, who had also his Fairs, and his Parks, and his arenas for rough sport, like Hockley-in-the - Hole. But these subjects have already found their chroniclers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Jonathan Conlin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780812207323
Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- and low-born alike were free to walk the paths; the proximity to strangers and the danger of dark walks were as thrilling to visitors as the fountains and fireworks. Vauxhall was the venue that made the careers of composers, inspired novelists, and showcased the work of artists. Scoundrels, sudden downpours, and extortionate ham prices notwithstanding, Vauxhall became a must-see destination for both Londoners and tourists. Before long, there were Vauxhalls across Britain and America, from York to New York, Norwich to New Orleans. This edited volume provides the first book-length study of the attractions and interactions of the pleasure garden, from the opening of Vauxhall in the seventeenth century to the amusement parks of the early twentieth. Nine essays explore the mutual influences of human behavior and design: landscape, painting, sculpture, and even transient elements such as lighting and music tacitly informed visitors how to move within the space, what to wear, how to behave, and where they might transgress. The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholars of urban studies and landscape design to unfold a cultural history of pleasure gardens, from the entertainments they offered to the anxieties of social difference they provoked.
Author : Mollie Sands
Publisher : London : Society for Theatre Research
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : UOM:39015032112230
Author : Sarah Jane Downing
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0747806993
During their heyday in the mid-eighteenth century the pleasure gardens were one of the hubs of polite society. Laid out with formal gardens and buildings for dining and amusement, the pleasure gardens were the scene of upper class exercise and entertainment. Most famous were Vauxhall Gardens, Cremorne Gardens and Ranelagh Gardens. In Bath, Sydney Gardens is the only English pleasure garden that has not since been closed and built over. This book tells the story of the pleasure gardens, explaining their beginnings in the seventeenth century, their rising social importance, the variety of entertainment contained within, and their eventual decline into seedy hangouts for gamblers, thieves and prostitutes.
Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135912369
The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.
Author : David Coke,Alan Borg
Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300173822
Presents a history of the Vauxhall Gardens, which rose from humble beginnings to become a fixture in the cutural and fashionable life of English society until its closure during the reign of Queen Victoria.
Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1905286341
London was once blessed with spas set in gardens, where beneficial waters could be consumed and enjoyed in agreeable surroundings, sometimes with music, food and alcohol. They were, in effect, the pleasure resorts of the 18th century. With the aid of many images the author - one of England's most distinguished architectural historians - provides a racy, informative, humorous and well-researched social history of these fascinating, if ephemeral, little-known features of London life, some of which survived until early Victorian times.
Author : Susan Wollenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351571210
In recent years there has been a considerable revival of interest in music in eighteenth-century Britain. This interest has now expanded beyond the consideration of composers and their music to include the performing institutions of the period and their relationship to the wider social scene. The collection of essays presented here offers a portrayal of concert life in Britain that contributes greatly to the wider understanding of social and cultural life in the eighteenth century. Music was not merely a pastime but was irrevocably linked with its social, political and literary contexts. The perspectives of performers, organisers, patrons, audiences, publishers, copyists and consumers are considered here in relation to the concert experience. All of the essays taken together construct an understanding of musical communities and the origins of the modern concert system. This is achieved by focusing on the development of music societies; the promotion of musical events; the mobility and advancement of musicians; systems of patronage; the social status of musicians; the repertoire performed and published; the role of women pianists and the 'topography' of concerts. In this way, the book will not only appeal to music specialists, but also to social and cultural historians.
Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512449
This new account of gambling in Britain in the long eighteenth century investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
