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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![formerly called Peerless Row, and formed the northern boundary of the ground laid out by Kempd [Maitland’s Hist, of Londoyi., i. p. 84, fF.; Dodsley’s London.^ “Peer- less Pool ” ; Noorthouck’s London., p. 756, fF. ; Trusler’s London Adviser (1786), p. 124 ; Hone’s Every Day Book., i. p. 970, fF. ; Pennant’s London., p. 268 ; Wheatley’s London P. and P. iii. s.v. ^ newspaper cuttings, &c., W. Coll.] VIEWS. 1. Two woodcuts (pleasure bath and fish-pond) From drawings,. circ. 1826, by John Cleghorn in Hone’s Every Day Book (cited above). 2. View of Peerless Pool Bath and Gardens in 1848 ; coloured drawing by Read. Grace, Cat. p. 608, No. 9. 3. The Pleasure Bath, Peerless Pool. An advertisement bill with woodcut of the bath, surrounded by trees and shrubberies, and a plan of the vicinity (i846 .^), W. Coll.; cp. Grace, Cat. p. 608, No. 8. ^ The grounds originally extended on the north-east to a tavern called The Fountain, which was frequented by tea-parties :— And there they sit so pleasant and cool, And see in and out the folks walk about. And gentlemen angling in Peerless Pool. (Lines in Hone, loc. cit.). There is now a public house called The Old Fountain at the east end of Baldwin Street. The Shep- herd and Shepherdess {q.v.) was close by on the other side of the City Road.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2897721x_0127.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
