… Image Johan Sebastian Müller, ‘Vauxhall Gardens, shewing the Grand Walk at the entrance of the garden, and the Orchestra, with the Musick playing’, … evening which could easily extend on to nighttime. The most famous pleasure gardens of the era were located in London ( Vauxhall , on the South Bank, or Ranelagh , in Chelsea), with other smaller but also frequently visited venues quickly … in older but similar spatial projects, like the New Spring Gardens, established around 1660, which became the basis for Vauxhall, by far the most renowned pleasure garden of the era. 1 . See Jonathan Conlin (ed.), The Pleasure Garden, from …