A View of the Grand South Walk in Vaux Hall Gardens. with the Triumphal Arches, Mr Handel's Statue &c.
This print shows the Handel Piazza on the Grand South walk at Vauxhall Pleaasure Gardens. It stared life as a small semicircular colonnade of plain boxes, designed as a setting for the famous statue of the composer. It was rebuilt in 1750-1 to create a broad colonnade with twenty-two flat-roofed boxes in the Doric order. There was an elaboarate central pavillion just visible on the right and domed terminal pavillions. Supperboxes lined the walkway . The statue of Handel was intended to represent virtuous sobriety.
