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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1880,1113.5480
Title: Object: The Inside of the Elegant Music Room in Vauxhall Gardens
Description: Highly decorative interior with figures including a young man courting women at right watched by her mother behind, busts around the walls; view from central chamber through to sunny antechamber and doorway beyond. 1751, this state later Etching with hand-colouring
Producer name: After: Samuel Wale; Print made by: Henry Roberts; Published by: John Bowles; Published by: Carington Bowles
School/style: British
Production date: 1751
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 292 millimetres; Width: 437 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See O'Connell, 'London 1753', p.238, cat. 5.55
Bibliographic references: Crace 1878 / A Catalogue of Maps, Plans and Views of London, Westminster and Southwark, collected and arranged by Frederick Crace (XXXV.146)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2003, BM, London 1753, cat.5.55
Subjects: music; garden
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Acquisition name: Purchased from: John Gregory Crace
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Frederick Crace
Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1880,1113.5480

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