Fashionable Contrasts #230154

Chelsea in the fifties and sixties was a small Thames-side village, still insulated from the encroachments of an expanding London by. The King's private lands. Young Gillray passed his first three years at a tiny cottage in Robinson's Lane, set back a few hundred feet from the town docks. By September 1759 the senior Gillray had moved his family to the Moravian settlement in Milman's Row. This line of dwellings, adjacent to the sect's burial ground, stretched from the King's Road to a point on the Thames near the present site of Battersea Bridge.