23 September 1673
Event Information
Theatre:
Hatton Garden
Theatrical Season:
1673-1674
Volume:
1
Comments:
Evelyn, Diary: We [Mrs Blagge and Evelyn] went to see Paradise, a roome in Hatton Garden furnished with the representations of all sorts of animals, handsomely painted on boards or cloth, & so cut out & made to stand & move, fly, crawll, roare & make their severall cries, as was not unpretty: though in it selfe a meere bauble, whilst the man who shew'd, made us Laugh heartily at his formal poetrie