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The Diorama, Regent's Park, the Glossary

The Diorama, Regent's Park, London, was a specialised theatre built in 1823 to show large, dramatized tableaux paintings as entertainment.^[1]

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1823 establishments in England
Brick buildings and structures in the United Kingdom
Grade I listed buildings in the London Borough of Camden
History of the London Borough of Camden
Scheduled monuments in London

Augustus Charles Pugin

Augustus Charles Pugin (born Auguste-Charles Pugin; 1762 – 19 December 1832) was an Anglo-French artist, architectural draughtsman, and writer on medieval architecture.

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Baptists

Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.

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Bedford College, London

Bedford College was founded in London in 1849 as the first higher education college for women in the United Kingdom.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Building is one of the United Kingdom's oldest business-to-business magazines, launched as The Builder in 1843 by Joseph Aloysius Hansom – architect of Birmingham Town Hall and designer of the Hansom Cab.

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Calico

Calico (in British usage since 1505) is a heavy plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton.

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Camden London Borough Council

Camden London Borough Council, also known as Camden Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Camden in Greater London, England.

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Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral, formally Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, is the cathedral of the archbishop of Canterbury, the leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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Charles Marie Bouton

Charles Marie Bouton (16 May 1781 – 28 June 1853) was a French painter.

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Charles-Caïus Renoux

Charles-Caius Renoux (born in Paris, 1795; died in Paris, 14 March 1846) was a French painter, lithographer, and illustrator.

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Cosmorama

A cosmorama is an exhibition of perspective pictures of different places in the world, usually world landmarks.

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Diorama

A diorama is a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional model either full-sized or miniature.

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Diorama Arts Cooperative

Diorama Arts Cooperative (DAC) was a mixture of actors, artists, dancers, designers, journalists, musicians and therapists who used the Diorama theatre in Regent's Park between 1976 and 1992. The Diorama, Regent's Park and Diorama Arts Cooperative are history of the London Borough of Camden.

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Fog

Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.

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Great Exhibition

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.

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History of Photography (journal)

History of Photography, founded in 1977, is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of photography and published by Taylor & Francis.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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John Constable

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.

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John Fisher (priest)

The Ven John Fisher (30 May 1788 – 25 August 1832) was Archdeacon of Berkshire from 1817 to 1832.

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John Nash (architect)

John Nash (18 January 1752 – 13 May 1835) was one of the foremost British architects of the Georgian and Regency eras, during which he was responsible for the design, in the neoclassical and picturesque styles, of many important areas of London.

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Lens

A lens is a transmissive optical device that focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Louis Daguerre

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography.

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Mayfair

Mayfair is an area in London, England and is located in the City of Westminster.

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Middlesex Hospital

Middlesex Hospital was a teaching hospital located in the Fitzrovia area of London, England.

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Morton Peto

Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet (4 August 1809 – 13 November 1889) was an English entrepreneur, civil engineer and railway developer, and, for more than 20 years, a Member of Parliament (MP).

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Mount Etna

Mount Etna, or simply Etna (Etna or Mongibello; Muncibbeḍḍu or 'a Muntagna; Aetna; Αἴτνα and Αἴτνη), is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Panorama

A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images, or 3D modeling.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Park Square, London

Park Square is a large garden square or private appendix to Regent's Park in London and is split from a further green, the long northern side of Park Crescent, by Marylebone Road and (single-entrance) Regent's Park tube station.

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Peep show

A peep show or peepshow is a presentation of a live sex show or pornographic film which is viewed through a viewing slot.

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Philip James de Loutherbourg

Philip James de Loutherbourg (31 October 174011 March 1812), whose name is sometimes given in the French form of Philippe-Jacques, the German form of Philipp Jakob, or with the English-language epithet of the Younger, was a French-born British painter who became known for his large naval works, his elaborate set designs for London theatres, and his invention of a mechanical theatre called the "Eidophusikon".

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Planning permission

Planning permission or building permit refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation), and sometimes for demolition, in some jurisdictions.

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Prince's Trust

The Prince's Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth y Tywysog) is a United Kingdom-based charity founded in 1976 by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) to help vulnerable young people get their lives on track.

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Proscenium

A proscenium (προσκήνιον) is the metaphorical vertical plane of space in a theatre, usually surrounded on the top and sides by a physical proscenium arch (whether or not truly "arched") and on the bottom by the stage floor itself, which serves as the frame into which the audience observes from a more or less unified angle the events taking place upon the stage during a theatrical performance.

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Regent Street

Regent Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London.

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Regent's Park

Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Rheumatology

Rheumatology is a branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and management of disorders whose common feature is inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints, and internal organs.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Sarnen

Sarnen is a small historic town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Obwalden situated on the northern shores of Lake Sarnen (Sarnersee) in Switzerland.

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Shilling

The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster in the West End of London.

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St James's Street

St James's Street is the principal street in the district of St James's, central London.

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Stolzenfels Castle

Stolzenfels Castle (Schloss Stolzenfels) is a former medieval fortress castle ("Burg") turned into a palace, near Koblenz on the left bank of the Rhine, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Tableau vivant

A tableau vivant (often shortened to tableau; plural: tableaux vivants), French for 'living picture', is a static scene containing one or more actors or models.

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Terraced houses in the United Kingdom

Terraced houses have been popular in the United Kingdom, particularly England and Wales, since the 17th century.

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Transparency and translucency

In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light.

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Trompe-l'œil

paren) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe l'œil, which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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William Hogarth

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diorama,_Regent's_Park

, William Hogarth.

The Diorama, Regent's Park, the Glossary

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1823 establishments in England

Brick buildings and structures in the United Kingdom

Grade I listed buildings in the London Borough of Camden

History of the London Borough of Camden

Scheduled monuments in London

References