File:Vauxhall - Dr. Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Mary Robinson, et al.jpg

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Summary

Thomas Rowlandson: Vauxhall Gardens (

)

Artist



Description	English painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator
Date of birth/death	13 July 1757	21 April 1827
Location of birth/death	Old Jewry	London
Work location	London, Paris (1774), France, Germany, Italy, Rotterdam (ca. 1794), Amsterdam (ca. 1794), Netherlands (ca. 1794)
Authority file	: Q318584 VIAF: 56672964 ISNI: 0000000121341830 ULAN: 500006930 LCCN: n50022330 NLA: 35465846 WorldCat

Aquatinto by Francis Jukes (1745-1812)
Engraved by Robert Pollard (1755-1838)
Published by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street, London

Title

Vauxhall Gardens

Description

N.B. This is a very early version of a restoration I'm working on.

Library of Congress description:

Print showing large crowd gathered before pavilion in Vauxhall Gardens where Mrs. Weichsel ([Elizabeth] Billington) [sic, see below] is singing, in the lower left, Dr. Johnson is seated at a table, eating, facing front, with James Boswell and Oliver Goldsmith seated at the ends of the table, to the right of center, the Prince of Wales [later George IV] is whispering in the left ear of Perdita (Mrs. [Mary Darby] Robinson).

N.B.: The singer is not Elizabeth Billington, but her mother, Frederika Weichsel.

Additional information:

The image description page of a previous, low-res version on en-wiki says that the two women in the centre are Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and her sister Lady Duncannon. No source is given.

Date

28 June 1785

Medium

engraving

Source/Photographer

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID ppmsca.05671.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:39, 25 March 2009	8,792 × 6,220 (37.13 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Today's update: Mostly done, just needs the border cleaned.
	20:25, 24 March 2009	8,834 × 6,230 (37.44 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Last update of the night
	17:44, 24 March 2009	8,848 × 6,224 (37.59 MB)	Adam Cuerden	More fixes.
	15:09, 24 March 2009	8,828 × 6,236 (42.25 MB)	Adam Cuerden	{{Information \|Description= N.B. This is a very early version of a restoration I'm working on. Library of Congress description: Print showing large crowd gathered before pavilion in Vauxhall Gardens where Mrs. Weichsel (Billington) is singing, in the lo

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