VAUXHALL GARDENS 1661-1859
Links
The Vauxhall Society's website www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk includes a 16 page history of the gardens and includes a number of illustrations.
There are also potted histories of the gardens, with illustrations, at www.vauxhallandkennington.org.uk and at www.wual.ua.edu/carter_page_02.asp
Items of visual interest, especially 19th century posters, but also 18th century topographical engravings and song sheets, and, remarkably, two photographs of the gardens from the 1850s, all from the Vauxhall Gardens archive at the Minet Library, Lambeth, can be seen on http://landmark.lambeth.gov.uk Photographs can be ordered from this site.
Charles Harrison-Wallace's website on the painter Peter Monamy (1681-1749) includes useful information in four sections on Vauxhall, as well as some good illustrations. www.cichw.net/pmvaux.html
Finchcocks in Kent has a collection of engravings, tickets, and other ephemera associated with Vauxhall, and organises related events. www.finchcocks.co.uk
The Foundling Museum in London displays works of art by artists associated with Vauxhall, and also holds an extensive study collection of George Frederick Handel and his times, which includes topographical engravings of Vauxhall and other related material. www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk
www.victorianlondon.org/entertainment/vauxhallgardens is a useful site with transcriptions of 19th century writings on Vauxhall; it also has the words of some 18th century Vauxhall songs
Forthcoming Events:
Vauxhall Revisited - Pleasure Gardens and their Publics, 1660-1880 Conference at Tate Britain on 14- 16 July 2008. Conributor, so far, include John Dixon Hunt, Peter Borsay, John Brewer, Rachel Cowgill, Deborah Epstein Nord, and Aileen Ribeiro. For further Information please visit www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/events/vauxhall.html or contact Dr Jonathan Conlin (University of Southampton) at j.conlin@soton.ac.uk