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From beautifully furnished homes to raucous gambling dens, discover the reality of life in Georgian Britain in the British Library’s dazzling exhibition Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain. Book Now at www.bl.uk/georgians-revealed 1 Free Walking Tour Map of Georgian London To make even more of your visit, we’ve created this Walking Tour of Georgian London. A theme running through Georgians Revealed is the idea of spectacle in the 18th century: what for the Georgians was “entertainment”? The answers can be surprising. Discover all on a walk that takes in some of London’s finest Georgian museums. Please check the websites of venues for details on admission and opening times. 7 2 3 4. To Lincoln’s Inn Fields 6. The Hunterian Museum Follow Lamb’s Conduit Street and Red The Royal College Lion Street and cross High Holborn of Surgeons of England towards Lincoln’s Inn Fields. As you approach, look for the sign for 35–43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields Whetstone Park, a narrow street where London WC2A 3PE 1. British Library 3. Foundling Museum apprentices congregated during their www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums time off, much to the annoyance of 96 Euston Road 40 Brunswick Square residents. Nearby was the infamous John and William Hunter were London NW1 2DB London WC1N 1AZ Vine Tavern. Lincoln’s Inn Fields was celebrated anatomists of the latter half www.bl.uk www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk one of Georgian London’s finest squares, of the 18th century. Their pioneering but also the popular haunt of beggars, work on both animals and humans Thomas Coram’s Foundling Hospital such as the celebrated Scarecrow, who changed the face of medicine. In Given to the nation by George IV in admitted its first children in 1741. found his way into the art and literature 1799, John Hunter’s vast collection 1823, the King’s Library (above) is now So numerous were the applications 4 of the period. was purchased by the government. It the centrepiece of the British Library. that a system was devised in which included the painting above by George Leaving the Library through the Portico coloured balls were placed in a bag Stubbs. In the Georgian period, exotic gates, cross Euston Road and head south and parents asked to make a ‘lucky dip’: 5. Sir John Soane’s Museum creatures were brought to London as down Judd Street. ‘the Expressions of Grief of the Women showpieces. This Indian rhinoceros whose Children could not be admitted 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields arrived in June 1790 and was sold to were Scarcely more observable than London WC2A 3BP the menagerie-keeper Thomas Clark 2. To Coram’s Fields those of some of the Women who www.soane.org whose Lyceum was a popular attraction parted with their Children, so that on the Strand. Continue along Hunter Street, named a more moving Scene can’t well be The home of Sir John Soane, with after John Hunter, the celebrated imagined’. But this ‘moving Scene’ 5 its distinctive white Portland stone surgeon who was vice-president of the was also a public spectacle for the façade, still dominates the north side 7. Woburn Walk nearby Foundling Hospital. You will more fortunate social classes (see of Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Born the son pass fine Georgian terraces and 18th- image below). of a bricklayer in 1753, Soane became Walk down Southampton Row until century street architecture and ironwork. one of the most prominent architects you arrive at Woburn Walk, London’s At the Foundling Museum, look south 6 in Georgian London. In his London first pedestrianised shopping street. to Coram’s Fields, the former site of the home, he sought to create ‘those fanciful Here, London shoppers came to peruse Foundling Hospital. Here, the gateway Right: ‘Admission to the effects which constitute the poetry of the fine displays of fabrics and books. and two colonnades from the hospital Foundling Hospital by architecture’. His manipulation of space Jane Austen, who loved to visit London still survive. Ballot’, by Nathanial Parr and light, combined with his collections and its shops, wrote to her sister after painting by Samuel of objects and art, is truly spectacular. Cassandra in 1811 from the city: ‘I am Building image credits: The British Library. Wale © Coram in the care getting very extravagant and spending The Foundling Museum © Coram in the care of the FoundlingMuseum. of the Foundling Museum. Sir John Soane’s Top right: ‘Indian all my Money’. Return to the British Museum, Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Rhinoceros’ by George Library along Euston Road. Soane’s Museum. The Hunterian Museum Stubbs, oil on canvas, © Trustees of the Hunterian Collection. c.1792.Courtesy of the Map: Tegg’s New plan of London (detail), 1830. Hunterian Museum. © British Library Board 2013..

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