The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth centuryWroth, Warwick William
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The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century
Wroth, Warwick William
London (England) -- History -- 18th century; Parks -- England -- London -- History
4. Bagnigge Wells, near Battle Bridge, a print (1777). Crace,
_Cat._, p. 583, No. 82; engraved in Walford’s _O. & N.
London_, ii. p. 294.
5. Bagnigge Wells Garden, frontispiece engraved for the
_Sunday Ramble_, “drawn on ye spot,” Page sculp.
(_circ._ 1774?) (W. Coll.); engraved in Pinks, p. 563.
6. “A Bagnigge Wells scene: or, No resisting temptation.”
An engraving published by Carrington Bowles, 1780. Crace,
_Cat._, p. 583, No. 85; a hand-coloured mezzotint in Brit.
Mus. _Catal. of Prints_, vol. iv., No. 4,545.
7. View of the Tea-gardens and Bun-house, from a drawing, taken
in 1790 (?); copy in sepia in W. Coll.; an almost identical
view is reproduced in Rogers’s _Views of Pleasure Gardens of
London_, p. 23, “from a drawing made in 1827.”
8. “The Road to Ruin” (with figure of John Rann). Crace,
_Cat._, p. 583, No. 86.
9. A view taken from the centre bridge in the gardens of
Bagnigge Wells. An example in Crosby Coll.; also reproduced in
Ashton’s _The Fleet_.
10. The original garden entrance to Bagnigge Wells (_circ._
1800?) J. T. Smith del. Etched in Rogers’s _Views of Pleasure
Gardens of London_, p. 26.
11. View of Bagnigge Wells Gardens, 1828, engraving in
Cromwell’s _Clerkenwell_, p. 414; reproduced in Pinks, p.
567.
12. A collection of manuscript notes, sketches and drawings,
relating to Bagnigge Wells in its later days, made by Anthony
Crosby. (Guildhall Library, London.)
13. “Residence of Nell Gwynne, Bagnigge Wells.” An engraving, C.
J. Smith, sc. 1844; Crace, _Cat._, p. 583, No. 88; Pinks,
p. 559.
“LORD COBHAM’S HEAD.”
The Lord Cobham’s (or Cobham’s) Head, named after Sir John Oldcastle
“the good Lord Cobham,” was situated in Cold Bath Fields, and on the
west side of Coppice Row, now Farringdon Road, at the point where it
was joined by Cobham Row.
It was first opened in 1728 (about April), and in its garden there was
then “a fine canal stocked with very good carp and tench fit to kill,”
and anglers were invited to board at the house. It was advertised to
be let or sold in 1729, and little is heard of it till 1742 when it
possessed a large garden with a “handsome grove of trees,” and gravel
walks, and claimed to sell the finest, strongest and most pleasant
beer in London at threepence a tankard. Some vocal and instrumental
music was at this time provided in the evening, and the walks were
illuminated.
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