Vaux-Hall / drawn by T. Rowlandson ; aquatinto by F. Jukes ; engraved by R. Pollard.
Summary
Print showing large crowd gathered before a pavilion in Vauxhall Gardens where Mrs. Weichsel (Billington) 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 is whispering in the left ear of Perdita (Mrs. Robinson).
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6853
Purchase; June 24, 1914; (DLC/PP-44811)
Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors, a popular artist in the Regency period in England.
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