print
- Museum number
- 1875,0508.1466
- Title
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Object: Ranelagh House & Gardens with the Rotunda at the time of the Jubilee Ball
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Series: A Collection of Views of old London and its environs
- Description
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View in Ranelagh Gardens; many figures in masks gathered in foreground, a large circular building in the background; first published in 1745, this state later c.1840
Etching
- Production date
- 1745-1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 288 millimetres
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Width: 435 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This plate was first published with the series 'Vauxhall and Ranelagh Gardens', listed in John Bowles' catalogue for 1753 p. 46 and this is plate number 6. The plate was reissued a number of times, before coming into the hands of Francis West in the mid-nineteenth century, whose 'Collection of Views' used the plates from the stock of John Bowles and his successors. By this stage the plates were not in good condition, which explains the poor impression.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0508.1466