A Perspective View of Ranelagh House and Garden.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine 1750 for J. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard London.
Copper engraving, sheet 175 x 250mm. 7 x 9¾". Vertical folds, as normal.
Ranelagh Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining Wren's Chelsea Pensioner's Hospital. The pleasure gardens became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely. For the Universal Magazine.
[Ref: 18212] £95.00
Copper engraving, sheet 175 x 250mm. 7 x 9¾". Vertical folds, as normal.
Ranelagh Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining Wren's Chelsea Pensioner's Hospital. The pleasure gardens became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely. For the Universal Magazine.
[Ref: 18212] £95.00