English society of the eighteenth century in contemporary art (1907)
Davies, Randall, 1866-1946 · London : Seeley and co., limited · leaf 99
of good roads and postchaises which,if they have abridged the Kings dominions, have at least tamedhis subjects. In 1769 Vauxhall was still in high fashion, and Walpole gives avivid picture of a Ridotto al fresco there at the beginning of May. Mr. Conway and I set out from his house at eight oclock;… … o THE INFLUENCE OF I^TNOLDS ^ND QAINSBOROUGH 51 through wheels and over posts and rails, we reached the gardens,where were already many thousand persons. Nothing diverted mebut a man in Turks dress and two nymphs in masquerade withoutmasques, who sailed among the company, and, which was…
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