Vauxhall Fun & Games

VAUXHALL GARDENS
Fun & Games

The Inside of the Elegant Music Room in Vauxhall Gardens
Apparently a copy of a print by H.Roberts after S.Wale
The set of paintings at the east end of the Grove are "better than those heretofore seen":
1. Difficult to please
2. Sliding on the ice
3. Bagpipes and hautboys
4. A bonfire at Charing Cross,
the Salisbury stage overturned, &c
5. Blindman's buff
6. Leap frog
7. The Wapping landlady,
and the tars just come ashore
8. Skittles.

On another side of the Grove's quadrangle are:
1. The taking of Porto Bello
2. Mademoiselle Catharine, the dwarf
3. Ladies angling
4. Bird-nesting
5. The play at bobcherry
6. Falstaff's cowardice detected
7. The bad family
8. The good family
9. The taking of a Spanish register-ship, in 1742
[ie 1739]
Other paintings listed in two more sections of the Ambulator of 1800 are:
1. Bird-catching
2. See-saw
3. Fairies dancing by moonlight
4. The milk maid's garland
5. The kiss stolen
1. A prince and princess in a traineau
2. Hot cockles
3. A gypsy telling fortunes by the coffee-cups
4. A Christmas gambol
5. Cricket
another look at the picture display
vauxhall gardens one vauxhall gardens two vauxhall gardens three
artistic range 1 artistic range 4
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