Sujet

The County Hunt Ball, in the New Hall, at Reading, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The County Hunt Ball, in the New Hall, at Reading, [Berkshire], 1850. The '...handsome hall of the Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics' Institution...was characteristically decorated for the occasion with several pairs of noble antlers, groups of flowering plants and shrubs, and lighted by means of elegant chandeliers'. It was a '...superb room, of about 90 feet by 40 feet, with an elliptical ceiling, and lighted by eighteen large windows in the roof, giving an unbroken surface of wall round the entire room; except that the east end, over the platform, is ornamented by a handsome circular window of coloured glass...The music was excellent; the effective band, under the direction of Mr. Ireland, performed with great spirit'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_042

Model release

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53,9Mo (5,9Mo) / 42,0cm x 32,2cm / 4960 x 3800 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people male interior man men dance candle candles ball chandelier chandeliers society evening guy British lighting scientific party Victorian century Britain inside newspapers press interior design concept time of day B&W posh engraved engraving interior decoration 19th century literary Indoors black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century Hunt Ball and Mechanics' Institution