Jubilee Venetian masquerade ball in Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea, London nineteenth century A lady in red hiding

A lady in red hiding in the woods

The interior of the Pantheon

The woman on the left is wearing an evening dress as it is off the shoulder

'2 Bunches a Penny Primroses

A man - presumably her husband - holds the rope

Jubilee Venetian masquerade ball in Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea, London nineteenth century A lady in red hidingJubilee Venetian masquerade ball in Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea, London, 1749. People in fancy dress for a masquerade ball; some are dressed as monks and nuns, sultans or cossacks, others as characters from the Commedia dell'Arte including Pulcinello, or Mr Punch. The fashionable Rotunda can be seen behind.