The Hyde Park Galop part 04
Description: Popular music of the 19th Century honoured local and national landmarks and Hyde Park is London's most famous park. During 'the London Season' Hyde Park was the place to be seen for the Victorian leisured classes. Boats could be hired to punt down the Serpentine and walks could be taken around the cultivated gardens or meadow lands of the park. Men and women would ride, either on horseback or in carriages, around the tracks, showing off their fine clothes, expensive coaches and well turned out servants.
Creator:
Composer : Hochst, Carl
Date: [1855]
Date of creation: 1855
Type: StillImage; Printed Music and Illustrated Cover
Format: jpeg; Lithograph, coloured
Subject: Society, Fashion, Hyde Park, Music; Sheet music -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; 780
Identifier: 015HZZ00000976CU00025004; h.976.c.(25.)
Is part of: Victorian popular music. Collect Britain
Rights: Copyright © British Library Board
Data provider: The British Library
Provider: The European Library
Providing country: United Kingdom
