Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Image Thomas Bowles, ‘The Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea near (now in) London’, Wikimedia Commons, 1754 Image John Bowles, Ranelagh Rotunda (1751). British Library Shelfmark: C103k.11 Résumé Ranelagh was one of London’s pleasure gardens, a typical eighteenth-century locus of sociability, which offered a mixture of social classes – suitably dressed … Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Advertisement Chinoiserie Entertainement Exoticism Luxury Masquerade Pleasure gardens Politeness Ranelagh was one of the ‘pleasure gardens’, places of entertainment which flourished in the eighteenth …
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