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Survey of London
… site did take place from time to time, notably under David Garrick, Drury Lane Theatre remained hemmed in by the … lease of the playhouse itself (A on fig. 2) to David Garrick and James Lacy for a term of twenty-one years … 1759. 22 It was probably about this time, 17489, that Garrick and Lacy also acquired the leases of two properties …
Old and New London
… Bolingbroke; also David Hume, Horace Walpole, and David Garrick. Ned Shuter, the actor, also, who was acting the …
Old and New London
… painting. Among his principal pictures may be mentioned, "Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy," "Mrs. Siddons as the …
Old and New London
… OF VAUXHALL, WITH ENTRANCE TO THE GARDENS, IN 1825. Garrick was a frequent visitor here, as also were the fair …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… sign, for that of Arne was The Two Crowns & Cushion. David Garrick lodged with John West in King St, 174348, and William … & gilders to Her Majesty. On 8 March 1770 charged David Garrick 5 5s for 2 Carlomarat, picture frames Carv'd of Gilt …
Old and New London
… Vauxhall, "made up a purse," to give it character. Foote, Garrick, and Wilkes, it is stated, wrote some of the …
Old and New London
… Dryden, Booth, Drayton, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Butler, Garrick, Camden, Nicholas Rowe, Isaac Casaubon, Handel, … as deserving of special notice. That to the memory of Garrick represents the great actor throwing aside a curtain, … in his "Book for a Rainy Day," alluding to the death of Garrick, on the 20th of January, 1780, and his burial in …
Old and New London
… is brought into use. The former scenery, contrived under Garrick's directions, was the gift of a master of the school, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… pillars supporting a cornice. In Leman-street is the Royal Garrick theatre. One of the county debt-courts established in …
Old and New London
… but he managed to return in 1741, bringing with him David Garrick, who had appeared in private at St. John's Gate, and … poet, in an extant letter, says, "Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, the town are gone mad after? There are a dozen dukes …