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Richard Phillips's Modern London, published in 1804, included twenty engravings of London scenes after the Welsh artist Edward Pugh. This paper will focus on Pugh's images of places of public resort, such as Hyde Park, Horse Guards Parade, and Greenwich Park. It will argue that Pugh offers a very 'modern' account of leisure time in such spaces, marked by the untroubled coexistence of different classes, and by images of children and their parents playing together, which are never seen in other contemporary representations of public space. To some degree, the jovial sentimentalism of Pugh's images conflicts with Phillips's differently modern account of London as par excellence the creation of the 'genius for gain' that animates the British people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
