Jubilee Venetian masquerade ball in Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea, London nineteenth century The Pretty Peasant

The Pretty Peasant

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

pictured on a pavement with a box of rhubarb

A man - presumably her husband - holds the rope

shows north front from the Horticultural Society Gardens

Jubilee Venetian masquerade ball in Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea, London nineteenth century The Pretty PeasantJubilee 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.