Ranelagh Gardens
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Ranelagh Gardens were public pleasure gardens located in Chelsea, then just outside London, England, in the 18th century.
The rotunda exterior, the "Chinese House", and part of the grounds (engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1754)
Interior of the Rotunda at Ranelagh as painted by Canaletto in 1754.
The relation of "Ranelaigh Gardens" (right) and the Royal Hospital Chelsea shown in another engraving by Thomas Bowles.
Rotunda
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A rotunda is any roofed building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome. It may also refer to a round room within a building. The Pantheon in Rome is perhaps the most famous, and
Ranelagh Gardens
…wider, middle-class English public, where it was open to commentary by essayists and writers of moral fiction. The centrepiece of Ranelagh was a rococo rotunda, which figured prominently in views of Ranelagh Gardens taken from the river. It had a diameter of 120 feet (37 metres) and was designed by William…
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