| Contents |
Introduction : a visitor's guide to London world city, 1800-40 / Celina Fox -- London and the world / Martin Daunton -- Pantomime and pageantry : the coronation of George IV / Valerie Cumming -- The building art of the first industrial metropolis / Andrew Saint -- Metropolitan improvements : John Nash and the picturesque / J. Mordaunt Crook -- Rudolph Ackermann / Simon Jervis -- Patronage and the applied arts in early nineteenth-century London / Clive Wainwright -- Scientific London / Iwan Morus, Simon Schaffer and Jim Second -- 'Athens rising near the pole' : London, Athens and the idea of freedom / Ian Jenkins -- The London art world / Peter Funnell -- Painting in London in the early nineteenth century / Andrew Wilton -- Hidden metropolis / Marilyn Butler -- Departing glories of the British theatre / Iain Mackintosh -- Radicalculture / H.T. Dickinson. |
| General note | "The exhibition is mounted by and the catalogue published with the assistance of Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Essen. Exhibition dates: 6 June-8 November 1992, Villa Hügel, Essen"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 616-623). |
| LCCN | 92050447 |
| ISBN | 0300052847 |
