Rural beauty, or, Vaux-Hal Garden

Description

Title: Rural beauty, or, Vaux-Hal Garden
Alternative Title: Vaux-Hal Garden
Vauxhall Garden
Creator: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
Contributor: Lockman, John, 1698-1771.
Boyce, William, 1711-1779.
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, attributed name.
Published / Created: [1737?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: G. Bickham
Abstract: "View overlooking gardens, showing a band playing from the orchestra on the right; elegantly dressed figures strolling through gardens or seated at tables amongst trees; head-piece illustration to 'The Musical Entertainer', p. 21; with the score of a song below, all printed from the same plate."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Dedication beneath title: To the Rt. Hon. [the] Ld. Visct. Baltimore, these four plates are humbly inscrib'd.
Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas in two columns below.
Opening words: Flora, Goddess, sweetly blooming ...
Plate from: Bickham, G. Musical entertainer.
Musical entertainer is sometimes attributed to George Bickham, Senior.
Plate numbered "21" in upper right corner.
"No. VI."--Lower left corner.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text at the bottom of the sheet, the "No. VI" and printmaker's statement "Bickham sc:".
Provenance: Michael Kemp; October 2025. With the stamp: Peter Jackson Collection.
Extent: 1 score ([1] page) : plate mark 32.6 x 20 cm, on sheet 33.5 x 22 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English