The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century / by Warwick Wroth ; assisted by Arthur Edgar Wroth.
- Warwick William Wroth
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century / by Warwick Wroth ; assisted by Arthur Edgar Wroth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and comic songs. The dismantling of the place was now begun. The grotto, which was already in a very dilapidated condition, was destroyed by some passers by in the early morning of 6 April, 1841. In 1843 remained was the north end of the Long Room, and, according to a representative of Punchy who visited the spot in September of that year, the old well was filled up with rubbish and mosaics of oyster shells. Shortly afterwards, the present tavern was built ; Mr. Negus, a name suggestive of other days, being the tenant in 1850. [Pinks’s Clerkenwell; Walford’s O. N, London; Palmer’s St. Pancras.^ p. 77, ff.; Wheatley’s London P.l^ P.; Kearsley’s Strangers’ Guide ; Noorthouck’s London., p. 752, ff. ; Clinch’s Marylebone and St. Pancras, p. 148, ffl ; Malcolm’s Lond. Rediv. (1803), p. 237 ; Sunday Ramble (various editions) ; Rimbault in Notes and Queries, 1st ser. ii. 228 ; 4th ser. xi. 24; Era Ahnanack, 1871 (account of Bagnigge Wells by Blanchard).] VIEWS. The following views may be noted :— 1. “Ancient stone from Bagnigge Wells,” engraved in Pinks, p. 558. 2. “ The Bread and Butter Manufactory, or the Humors of Bagnigge Wells,” a mezzotint published by Carrington Bowles, 1772 ; cp. an aquatint print from a painting by Sanders, published by J. R. Smith in 1772. 3. Mr. Deputy Dumpling and Family enjoying a summer after- noon, a print (1780) published by Carrington Bowles. Crace, Cat. p. 583, No. 84. 4. Bagnigge Wells, near Battle Bridge, a print (1777). Crace, Cat., p. 383, No. 82 ; engraved in Walford’s O. Cj” 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.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2897721x_0106.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
