Volume 46, Number 10 · June 10, 1999
Contretemps at Prince's Gate
By Richard Dorment
The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography
by Linda Merrill
Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution/Yale University Press,, 406 pp., $65.00
The house at 49 Prince's Gate, London SW7, still stands on the eastern side of Exhibition Road, a wide thoroughfare laid out in the 1850s to connect the southern end of Hyde Park to the Cromwell Road. Built in 1869, this imposing white stucco mansion is typical of those found throughout South Kensington, a neighborhood which is today synonymous with stifling respectability, but until the mid-nineteenth century was a semirural backwater, largely given over to nurseries, to market gardens, and to large private villas.[1]
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