Sujet

Gondolas, c1891. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Gondolas, c1891. 'Greatest of All Spectacles; Illuminated Aquatic Festivities'. Illustration from the exhibition pamphlet for 'Venice in London', a spectacular show staged by Imre Kiralfy. The entertainment was variously described as 'Venice The Bride of the Sea at Olympia', 'Venice at Olympia', and 'Venice in London'. The event required the import of 100 gondolas from Venice, with Venetian gondoliers. According to 'The Times' newspaper, 4,893,980 people visited the event in its first year.

Date

1891

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM25A07_077

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

36,0Mo (3,0Mo) / 33,2cm x 27,2cm / 3923 x 3208 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel transport transportation unusual female women woman people male job man men hat architecture boat boats playhouse entertainment hats guy theatre occupation rose clothes color restaurant dress canal show gondola gondolas Victorian century profession programme clothing gondolier gondoliers concept top hat APPAREL tourist attraction MONOCHROME engraved engraving Colour scrapbook 19th century water transport nineteenth century tourism tourists illustration pink scrap book Unknown Hartley Lyons Imre Kiralfy Kiralfy tophat Joseph Imre gondolieri 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing The London Archives entertainments scrapbook Venice in London Imre K?nigsbaum Imre Konigsbaum K?nigsbaum Konigsbaum Joseph Lyons Sir Joseph Nathaniel Lyons Joseph Nathaniel Lyons Joseph Nathaniel Harold Thomas Hartley Harold Thomas Harold Hartley