Regency Culture and Society: Celebrities of London (1815)

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CELEBRITIES OF LONDON AND PARIS ALMACK'S IN 1815 The personages delineated in the frontispiece are well worthy of notice both from the position they held in the fashionable world and from their being represented with great truth and accuracy On the left the man with the red face laughing at Brummell is Charles Marquis of Queensberry the great George himself the admirable Crichton of the age comes next in a dégagé attitude with his fingers in his waistcoat pocket His neckcloth is inimitable and must have cost him much time and trouble to arrive at such perfection He is talking earnestly to the charming Duchess of Rutland who was a Howard and mother to the present Duke The tall man in a black coat who is preparing to waltz with Princess Esterhazy so long ambassadress of Austria in London is the Comte de
St Antonio afterwards Duke of Canizzaro He resided many years in England was a very handsome man and a great lady killer and married an English heiress Miss Johnson The stout gentleman waltzing with the Russian ambassadress Countess afterwards Princess Lieven is Baron Neümann at that time secretary to the Austrian embassy He was afterwards minister at Florence and married a daughter of the Duke of Beaufort's We next behold in a wonderful light green coat black tights and a crushed hat the late Sir George Warrender the famous epicure whose name was pronounced by Sir Joseph Copley to be really Sir Gorge Provender The worthy Baronet is talking to the handsome Comte de St Aldegonde afterwards a general and at this period aide de camp to Louis Philippe then Duke of Orleans The original sketch was given to Brummell by the artist who executed it and it was highly prized by the king of the dandies chased at the sale of his effects in Chapel Street by the person who gave it to me.Celebrities of London and Paris
Being a Third Series of Reminiscences and Anecdotes of the Camp the Court and the Clubs : Containing a Correct Account of the Coup D’état (1865)

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