Jonathan Tyers
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Jonathan Tyers became the proprietor of New Spring Gardens, later known as Vauxhall Gardens, a popular pleasure garden in Kennington, London. Opened in 1661, it was situated on the south bank of the River Thames on a site almost opposite the present-day Tate Britain.
Jonathan Tyers and his family, by Francis Hayman, c. 1740
Vauxhall Gardens
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Vauxhall Gardens is a public park in Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, on the south bank of the River Thames.
A prospect of Vauxhall Gardens in 1751
Entrance to Vauxhall Gardens by Thomas Rowlandson
Plan of Vauxhall Gardens, 1826
An entertainment in Vauxhall Gardens in about 1779, by Thomas Rowlandson. The two women in the centre are Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and her sister Lady Duncannon. The man seated at the table on the left is Samuel Johnson, with James Boswell to his left and Oliver Goldsmith to his right. To the right the actress and author Mary Darby Robinson stands next to the Prince of Wales, later George IV