Out of the Shadows

David E. Coke F.S.A. is a consulting editor at and contributor to VauxhallHistory.org, the history offshoot of The Vauxhall Society. Between 1976 and 1979 he was curator of Gainsborough's House in Sudbury, Suffolk, where he organised the exhibition The Muses' Bower: Vauxhall Gardens 1728-1786. While Director of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (1981-1997) he curated the Vauxhall Gardens section in the 1984 Rococo exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and in 2012 The Triumph of Pleasure, an exhibition for the Foundling Museum, London.