page_title: Argyll Rooms
section_title: Argyll Rooms as subject
hierarchical_section_title: Argyll Rooms / Argyll Rooms as subject
caption_attribution_description: English: Etching of scene in the Argyll Rooms. Includes text about origin: 'Drawn &amp; etched by Theodore Lane. / Engraved by Geo. Hunt. / Pubd. for the proprietor, by Geo. Hunt, 18 Tavistock Stt. Covt . Garden. 1826.'
context_page_description: The Argyll Rooms was an entertainment venue on Little Argyll Street, Regent Street, London, England, opened in 1806. It was rebuilt in 1818 due to the design of Regent Street. It burned down in 1830, but was rebuilt, but later mainly occupied by shops. It was the home of the Philharmonic Society of London from its inception in 1813 until 1830.
  The Argyll Rooms should not be confused with the Argyle Subscription Rooms, later part of the London Trocadero. These rooms were open as a music hall from 1849 to 1878 and were notorious as a haven for prostitutes.
context_section_description: Lord Byron satirised the fashions of the Argyll Rooms in this passage of the English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809):
  Or hail at once the patron and the pile
  
  Of vice and folly, Greville and Argyle!
  
  Where yon proud palace, Fashion's hallowed fane,
  
  Spreads wide her portals for the motley train,
  
  Behold the new Petronius of the day,
  
  Our arbiter of pleasure and of play!
  
  There the hired eunuch, the Hesperian choir,
  
  The melting lute, the soft lascivious lyre,
  
  The song from Italy, the step from France,
  
  The midnight orgy, and the mazy dance,
  
  The smile of beauty, and the flush of wine,
  
  For fops, fools, gamesters, knaves, and Lords combine:
  
  Each to his humour—Comus all allows; 
  
  Champaign, dice, music, or your neighbour's spouse.
  The printmaker Theodore Lane etched the print Masquerade at the Argyll Rooms in 1826.
caption: Etching by Theodore Lane of a masquerade in the Argyll Rooms
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