In this week’s episode of “Travels with a Curator,” explore the history of St. James’s Park with Curator Aimee Ng. This popular attraction in London serves as the backdrop for Thomas Gainsborough's “Mall in St. James’s Park,” which he painted about 1783 for George III. Originally a cockleshellstrewn court for playing pallmall, a precursor of croquet, the Mall was a place of visual encounters, where fashionable 18thcentury Londoners (and their pets) could see and be seen.

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