Ranelagh Gardens

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The Inside View of the Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens with the Company at Breakfast.

BOWLES, John
London,
Printed for J. Bowles in St Paul's Church Yard & John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill,
1754
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Ranelagh Gardens was one of several pleasure gardens in London, and opened in 1741. Its principal attraction was a heated rotunda designed by William Jones, modelled on the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. The print shows the central fireplace with revellers eating their breakfast around it, and the dais holding musicians to the left with a large organ. The rotunda helped make Ranelagh more popular than its rival in Vauxhall, which had no indoor concert area. Ranelagh also h...

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Adams 193.24; BM 1880,1113.2459 (different publisher); V&A S.2367-2009.

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