Front view of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, Westminster, London J Bluck View of New River Head

View of New River Head

'Gambols on the River Thames

the most active in the desersion [sic]

This is a reference to Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher

with a key in the centre

Front view of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, Westminster, London J Bluck View of New River HeadFront view of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, Westminster, London, 1826. Designed by James Wyatt, the Pantheon was a place of public entertainment that opened in 1772. It was destroyed by a fire in 1792 but was rebuilt in 1795, re opening with a masquerade ball. It was converted into a theatre by NW Cundy in 1811 1812, but closed in 1814. The building later served as a bazaar, then as the offices of a wine merchant before being demolished in 1937 to make