Dance Gallery

French Ball, Royal Almanac, with a score sheet of the Menuet de Strasbourg'

XIR252771 French Ball, Royal Almanac, with a score sheet of the Menuet de Strasbourg by Marc Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704) 1682 (engraving) (b/w photo) by Landry, Pierre (c. 1630-1701); Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; (add.info.: Bal a la francaise, Almanach royal, avec representation d'une page de partition; reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715);); French, out of copyright

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When the party entered, illustration from Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

XJF451373 When the party entered, illustration from Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, edition published in 1894 (engraving) by Thomson, Hugh (1860-1920); Private Collection; (add.info.: the arrival of Mr. Bingley, Mr. Darcy, Caroline Bingley and Mr and Mrs. Hurst at the Meryton dance; Jane Austen (1775-1817);); British, out of copyright

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Surgeons Hall

The Company of Surgeons moved from Surgeons Hall in Old Bailey to a site at 41 Lincolns Inn Fields in 1797. Construction of the first College building, to a design by George Dance the Younger, and James Lewis, took from 1805 to 1813. In 1833 Sir Charles Barry won the public competition to design a replacement. The library and portico of this building are all that remain today after a German incendiary bomb hit the College in 1941

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