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London 1753. (Report from Europe).(British art, various media, British Museum, London, England)
The British Museum was founded 250 years ago. Taking 1753 as its starting point, the institution is holding an exhibition entitled London 1753, on view from May 23 until November 23. It looks at life in the capital from the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 to the years immediately following the accession of George III in 1760.
London was an exciting place in the mid-eighteenth century. With a population of seven hundred thousand it was larger than Constantinople and Paris, and was the capital of a rich and powerful country The impressive list of renowned people living and working in the city at the time includes William Hogarth, Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Antonio Canaletto, Horace Walpole, Thomas Chippendale, Joshua Reynolds, and the young Robert Adam.
The newly rich had an appetite for consumer goods that caused the luxury industries such as silk weaving, jewelry making, and porcelain manufacturing to flourish. By contrast, prostitution, alcoholism, crime, and destitution were also rampant.
The exhibition opens with John Rocque's 1747 seven by thirteen foot, one-sheet map of London, which sets the scene. The show is then divided into five parts, each concerned with a different section of London. These ...
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