[3] Large-scale painting was an innovation at Vauxhall Gardens tried in 1823, with a 24 metre high picture of the Bay of Naples as an attraction, used as background for a firework display.
He presented also a "Hydroptic Exhibition" at the Gardens, in a tradition of elaborate water features set by R. Morris, who worked for the stage with Charles Dibdin the younger.
[5][6] Advertising for the season's opening that year included "The Scenery, with various paintings and many New Cosmoramas, dispersed about the Gardens, by Mr. Cocks and Assistants.
[12] Known as the Adelaide Gallery, this early technology museum had been set up in 1832, by a group including Jacob Perkins and Thomas Telford.
It lasted 18 hours, and the party of three including Thomas Monck Mason and Robert Hollond, landed in Weilburg, Duchy of Nassau in Germany the next day, having travelled 500 miles.