Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens

Vauxhall Gardens was a significant element in the social lives of Londoners for the best part of two centuries, from the 1660s until 1859. Jonathan Tyers, its greatest proprietor, was not only a brilliant businessman but also one of the most important patrons of the arts in Georgian Britain. Without him and his successors, British music, art and entertainments would be significantly poorer. As a result, the serious study of Vauxhall and the other London pleasure gardens is at last becoming ...