William Godwin's Diary

Events

Godwin indicated that he and Thomas Hocroft saw 'the pictures at the Adelphi'. This probably refers to the artist James Barry's murals, executed between 1777 and 1784 for the Great Room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce at the Adelphi in London.

See Harrison, Charles, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger, Art in theory, 1648-1815: an anthology of changing ideas (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).