- Title:
- Vauxhall Gardens shewing the Grand Walk at the Entrance of the Garden and the Orchestra with the Music Playing
- Date:
- after 1751
- Medium:
- Etching and engraving, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/16 x 15 3/4in. (25.6 x 40cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.18699
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- leisure
- Associated Places:
- England | Lambeth | London | Southwark | United Kingdom | Vauxhall Gardens
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: As a COVID-19 precaution, the Study Room is closed until further notice. - Exhibition History:
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Casanova - The Seduction of Europe (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2018-02-10 - 2018-05-20)
Casanova - The Seduction of Europe (Kimbell Art Museum, 2017-08-27 - 2017-12-31)
Casanova - The Seduction of Europe (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2018-06-17 - 2018-10-08)
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Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 6-7, V 1699 (YCBA)
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text) , New Haven, 2006, [p. 17], V 1699:1 (YCBA)
Jonathan Conlin, The pleasure garden , from Vauxhall to Coney Island, , University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2013, pp. 104, 109, 110, fig. 4.3, SB451.36.G7 P54 2013 (YCBA) Also available online (ORBIS) [Project Muse]
Melanie Doderer-Winkler, Magnificent entertainments : temporary architecture for Georgian festivals, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2013, pp. 81, 82, fig. 88, NA8452 .D63 2013 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Boris Ford, The Cambridge cultural history of Britain, Cambridge University Press, London; New York, 1992, vol. 5, p.209, NX543 C36 1992 (YCBA)
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, pp. 161, 130, fig. 102, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:36501
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John S. Muller, ca. 1715–1792, German, active in Britain, Vauxhall Gardens shewing the Grand Walk at the Entrance of the Garden and the Orchestra with the Music Playing, after 1751
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