Every visitor to 18th-century London was impressed by the noise and the throngs of people. But the city itself was neither quaint nor clean. Most residents lived in appalling conditions.

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Curator and art historian Danielle Thom of the Victoria and Albert Museum looks at the relationship between classical sculpture and bawdy prints in 18th-century London. Show more The 18th century ...

Executions continued to be carried out publicly in the 18th century, mostly outside Newgate Prison in London. After 1783, a swifter method of execution was used, with the removal of a platform ...

at Bonhams London on February 18. Alex Kidson, author of a 2015 catalogue raisonné for George Romney, confirmed the attribution to the 18th-century master. Rather than the Frick portrait ...

Specialists at the Wallace Collection in London have attributed an 18th-century work depicting the Grand Canal in Venice to Bernardo Bellotto, the nephew and pupil of the famed Venetian view artis ...