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Photo credit: Library of Congress / Durova (restored by Adam Cuerden)

Vauxhall Gardens, depicted here in a print after Thomas Rowlandson, was a pleasure garden in Vauxhall, South London. It was one of the leading venues for public entertainment in London from the mid-17th to the mid-19th century. The figures in the print include George IV and his mistress Mary Robinson, the socialite Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and the luminaries Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Hester Thrale and Oliver Goldsmith.