Title

'A Card of Invitation to Ranelagh', c1876

Caption

'A Card of Invitation to Ranelagh', c1876. Ranelagh House, built in 1688-89 by the Earl of Ranelagh was a fashionable, open air music venue and pleasure garden in Chelsea. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]

Date

1876

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F22_407

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,4Mb (3,2Mb) / 13,2in x 17,8in / 3953 x 5340 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors city London England female women woman people male man men garden gardens dance country entertainment ball society evening guy card costume steps British English performance dress performer performing step location Victorian century amusement Britain enjoyment open air fashionable lady concept entertaining rotunda United Kingdom time of day B&W venue MONOCHROME invitation publication 19th century black & white black and white B W aristocracy aristocrat Chelsea Kensington and Chelsea nineteenth century history historic West London The Print Collector earl pleasure garden Ranelagh Gardens Ranelagh House TGN outside pleasure gardens engraving Old and New London Unknown Jones Richard Edward Walford Co Edward Walford Cassell Earl of Ranelagh Petter Petter & Galpin Richard Jones 1st Earl of Ranelagh Viscount Ranelagh engraving