IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240043 accession number: P.14996-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After the drawing by Michel Vincent Brandoin (1733-1807), (c.1772; location unknown). A view of what in 1772 was a new place of evening entertainment, intended as a Winter version of the Ranelagh Summer Pleasure Gardens. The Pantheon was designed by James Wyatt and opened to the public on 27 January 1772 (See Notes). The design of the main rotunda was derived from the Byzantine church of Santa Sophia at Constantinople, decorated in a neo-classical style with the central dome replicating the Pantheon in Rome. Earlom's print after Brandoin captures a view beneath the colonnaded perimeter of the Pantheon with men and women taking rest on chairs, engaged in conversation. The main top-lit rotunda is seen beyond to left and right, crowded with men and women, dancing taking place at the far left. The scene is lit with candles. title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240043 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1772 - 1772 creation date earliest: 1772 creation date latest: 1772 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Earlom, Richard maker: Sayer, Robert maker: Brandoin, Michel Vincent