5200 x 3661 px | 44 x 31 cm | 17,3 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
8 agosto 2006
Altre informazioni:
Ranger's House is a villa adjacent to Greenwich Park in the south east suburbs of London, England. Since 2002 it has housed the Wernher Collection of art. The house is a modestly proportioned red brick mansion dating from 1699. It is situated in Blackheath and backs directly onto Greenwich Park. Presently there is a rose garden behind it. Its occupants have included the eighteenth century politician and man of letters Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield and in the early nineteenth century a member of the British royal family, Princess Sophia Mathilda of Gloucester. In the twentieth century it became a council sports and social club and was later used to display collections of musical instruments and Jacobean portraits. The Wernher Collection was assembled by the German born diamond magnate Sir Julius Wernher in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
